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Five 2024 breakthroughs in cancer drug research

Drug Discovery World

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

Drug Discovery World

Tom Otis, Professor of Neuroscience UCL and Chief Scientific Officer of Lario Therapeutics, said: “We are grateful to MJFF for their funding support for Lario’s efforts to test and develop a potential new therapy designed to prevent the loss of neurons that causes Parkinson’s disease. We see great potential in the CaV2.3

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SynaptixBio and Evotec extend rare disease therapies partnership

Drug Discovery World

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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World Parkinson’s Day: New drug research

Drug Discovery World

Read more: Focus on autophagy could lead to more effective Parkinson’s drugs New funding for clinical trials Cerevance closed a total financing of $116 million to advance CVN424, its first-in-class, oral, GPR6 inverse agonist.

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This week in drug discovery (17-21 June) 

Drug Discovery World

It’s been another busy week in the world of cell therapy, with the first use of CAR-T therapy for stiff-person syndrome, a study debunking the risk of secondary cancers from CAR-T and a number of cell therapy research findings revealed at EHA2024. Risk of secondary cancers after CAR-T cell therapy just 6.5%

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Startup Mariana raises $175M for radiopharmaceutical drug research

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The Series B round makes Mariana one of the best funded private companies in a growing group of biotechs working on new radiopharmaceutical therapies.

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Sarepta sells FDA fast pass earned from Duchenne gene therapy approval

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The deal enables Sarepta to quickly cash in on the clearance of Elevidys, with $102 million in new funds to help bankroll its drug research.

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