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SynaptixBio and Evotec extend rare disease therapies partnership

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SynaptixBio and Evotec have announced they are extending their partnership to find further candidate drugs to treat H-ABC, the most severe form of TUBB4A leukodystrophy. CHOP identified a candidate antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) as a potential therapy for H-ABC.

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Five 2024 breakthroughs in cancer drug research

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With the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting , taking place from 30 May to 3 June, the drug discovery announcements have been coming thick and fast, with many new cancer therapies making significant strides forward in our ability to treat the disease.

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Lario Therapeutics awarded $6m for Parkinson’s drug research

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calcium channel inhibition as a novel and disease-modifying approach for treatment of Parkinson’s disease. There is extensive literature linking calcium channels to pathology of the disease, and it has been demonstrated in preclinical experimental studies that the deletion of CaV2.3 We see great potential in the CaV2.3

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World Parkinson’s Day: New drug research

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A treatment from sea sponge Organic chemists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) created the first synthetic version of a molecule recently discovered in a sea sponge that may have therapeutic benefits for Parkinson’s disease and similar disorders.

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Turning Science into Business: Inducing autophagy to treat disease

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DDW’s Diana Spencer speaks to Peter Hamley , Chief Scientific Officer of Samsara Therapeutics, to understand the role autophagy plays in neurodegenerative diseases and how boosting this process could increase healthspan. But it’s now known that if it stops working this can lead to many different diseases. What is autophagy?

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Allogene taps Arbor in pursuit of ‘off-the-shelf’ CAR-T therapies for autoimmune disease

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Allogene’s partnership with Arbor is designed to help the company stand out in what’s quickly become one of the industry’s hottest areas of drug research.

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This week in drug discovery (22-26 July) 

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Encouraging’ results for potential disease-modifying ALS drug New clinical data have shown that TikoMed’s low molecular weight dextran sulfate compound ILB is safe and well tolerated in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF).

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