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Women in Stem with Dr Amber D. Van Laar

Drug Target Review

During my academic career, I had the opportunity to examine the underlying causes of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s disease and develop novel animal models to investigate potential disease-modifying therapeutics. For instance, we know ageing is a primary risk factor for many neurodegenerative diseases.

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Advances in the Battle Against Autoimmune Disease

The Pharma Data

A healthy immune system defends the body against disease and other conditions. Autoimmune disease impacts different parts of the body, weakening functionality. Researchers are aware of more than 80 diseases that occur when the immune system attacks the body’s own organs, tissues and cells. It may be life-threatening.

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VarmX appoints Dr. Gerard Short as Chief Medical Officer

The Pharma Data

Short will be responsible for overseeing the clinical development of VarmX’s pipeline, including progression of its lead product, VMX-C001, into clinical proof of concept and registrational studies. Further, he advanced gene therapy clinical programmes in haemophilia B and Fabry’s disease.

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EdiGene Expands Management Team by Appointment of Head of US Subsidiary Dr. Bo Zhang and Head of Business Development Dr. Kehua Fan

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which develops genome editing technologies to accelerate drug discovery and develop novel therapeutics for a broad range of diseases, today announced the appointment of Bo Zhang, Ph.D., as Head of Business Development. Zhang completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital.

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SRP-001: redefining pain treatment with a safer, non-opioid analgesic

Drug Target Review

As a non-NSAID, it reduces adverse effects associated with these pain relief drugs, including kidney injury, GI gastritis/ulceration and blood pressure elevation, which can affect patients with cardiovascular disease and the elderly. We set out to improve health by developing a novel non-opioid that avoids potential abuse.

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Breast Cancer

The Pharma Data

“These longer-term results show the durable overall survival benefit of sacituzumab govitecan over traditional chemotherapy in pre-treated HR+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer,” said Sara Tolaney, MD, MPH, Chief of the Division of Breast Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. “At

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BioSpace Movers & Shakers, Nov. 20

The Pharma Data

Additionally, Raffaele Baffa was named chief medical officer of Ziopharm. Previously, Baffa was Therapeutic Area Head of Oncology, Global Clinical Development for Shire. Gelbman most recently served as the founding CEO of FDNA, a digital health startup that develops advanced AI tools to help diagnose patients with rare diseases.