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Vertex Bags Experimental Drug for Rare Liver Disease after Disappointing Phase 2 Results | 2020-10-15

The Pharma Data

Vertex Pharmaceuticals has decided to give up on its experimental VX-814, a small molecule drug for the rare genetic disease Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD), canning the drug’s development after seeing lackluster results from an early phase 2 trial. James Miessler.

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Toxicology transformed: Why accuracy now leads the way

Drug Target Review

This shift in focus is especially critical in toxicology, where accurate target analysis plays a vital role in identifying toxic effects and ensuring patient safety, particularly as the field transitions from traditional drugs to the promising realm of biotherapeutics, especially for rare diseases.

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VALILTRAMIPROSATE

New Drug Approvals

Alzheon licensed ALZ-801 from NeuroChem and is developing it for Alzheimer’s disease. ALZ-801 is an advanced and markedly improved candidate for the treatment of alzheimer’s disease. Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Safety of ALZ-801, a Novel Prodrug of Tramiprosate in Development for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease.

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Roche provides update on tominersen programme in manifest Huntington’s disease

The Pharma Data

Basel, 22 March 2021 – Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced the decision to discontinue dosing in the Phase III GENERATION HD1 study of tominersen in manifest Huntington’s disease (HD). In December 2017, Roche licensed the investigational molecule from Ionis Pharmaceuticals. About Huntington’s disease.

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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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Deconstructing the Diligence Process: An Approach to Vetting New Product Theses

LifeSciVC

Target validation : Do we believe the target(s) plays a central role in disease biology and that modulation will modify disease? There is nothing more exciting than digging into a new target and trying to develop a thesis on whether modulation may be impactful in disease. Is the functionality of mutations known?

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Protalix BioTherapeutics and Chiesi Global Rare Diseases Announce Extension of PDUFA Date for Pegunigalsidase Alfa for the Proposed Treatment of Fabry Disease

The Pharma Data

(NYSE American: PLX) (TASE: PLX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, production and commercialization of recombinant therapeutic proteins produced by its proprietary ProCellEx ® plant cell-based protein expression system, and Chiesi Global Rare Diseases, a business unit of Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A.,

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