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Emily Crossley was a well-known TV correspondent for Britain’s Channel 4, and a presenter for CNN International’s World Business Today program. But her own world was turned upside-down the day she learned her son, Eli, had Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). “The initial diagnosis was so devastating. There’s no escape. It’s absolutely relentless,” she said. “When […]

— Patient Enrollment Underway in U.S. with Nine Locations Open for Enrollment — — Global Start-Up Activities Ongoing with Clinical Trial Application Approvals Received in Canada and Multiple European Countries — CAMBRIDGE, Mass., January 3, 2019 – Catabasis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:CATB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today shared an update on clinical trial sites in the United […]

WVE-210201, an exon 51 skipping therapy, has shown positive safety and tolerability results in a Phase 1 clinical trial in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), Wave Life Sciences announced. According to Wave Life Sciences, the positive safety data supports moving the therapy into a Phase 2/3 trial, planned to start in 2019, to confirm the safety profile and establish efficacy. The company […]

REUTERS: Capricor Therapeutics Inc said on Wednesday it had put on hold a clinical trial of its drug to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a muscle-wasting disorder, citing a safety review. The review follows a severe allergic reaction during infusion of the drug, the company said in a filing. The patient responded well to medical […]

WVE-210201 safety and tolerability profile supports Phase 2/3 clinical trial initiation in boys with DMD amenable to exon 51 skipping Delivery of interim efficacy data from ongoing open-label extension study expected in H2 2019 CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Wave Life Sciences Ltd. (NASDAQ:WVE), a biotechnology company focused on delivering transformational therapies for […]

Early safety and efficacy data from a Phase 1 trial suggest that Taiho Pharmaceutical’s investigational compound TAS-205 may hold the potential to treat patients with Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy (DMD). The results were reported in the study, “A phase I study of TAS-205 in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy,” published in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. DMD is a […]

— MoveDMD Trial Data Showed Edasalonexent Was Well-Tolerated with No Safety Signals and Confirmed NF-kB Target Engagement — CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Catabasis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:CATB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that data from the Phase 1 MoveDMD clinical trial of edasalonexent were published in the Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases, “Phase 1 Study of Edasalonexent (CAT-1004), an Oral NF-kB […]

Focus will be on Milestones for Development and Commercialization CAP-1002 Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Capricor Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CAPR) announced today that it will meet with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December to discuss clinical trial design, surrogate or intermediate endpoints and manufacturing processes for CAP-1002, […]

Capricor Therapeutics’ vesicle-based therapy CAP-2003, derived from the company’s proprietary cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs), may be an effective therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), according to preclinical data. The company presented the results in August in two scientific posters at the 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Extracellular Vesicles in Newry, Maine. Capricor’s lead candidate for the treatment of DMD is CAP-1002, which is […]

A new investigational therapy called GsMTx4, developed by researchers at the University of Buffalo and based on a molecule found in tarantula venom, is able to prevent the loss of muscle mass and muscle injury in a mouse model of advanced Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). These findings were published in the study, “GsMTx4-D provides protection to the D2.mdx mouse,” […]