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Survival benefit seen for patients with ALS drug CNM-Au8: New data

Clene is planning to submit an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in early 2026 requesting accelerated approval of its oral therapy CNM-Au8 for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The company’s announcement follows new, positive data — from FDA-requested analyses — showing that CNM-Au8…

Foralumab nasal spray joins pathway to HEALEY platform trial

A Phase 2 clinical trial to investigate Tiziana Life Sciences’ intranasal foralumab for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has been accepted into the Healey ALS MyMatch program at Massachusetts General Hospital. The program, located at the Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS, is a…

Aperture to advance potential treatment for ALS and dementia

Aperture Therapeutics has selected APRTX-001 as its lead candidate to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative diseases. The therapy is designed to reduce the levels of CD33, a receptor protein on the surface of microglia — the resident immune cells of the central nervous system (CNS,…

ALS oral therapy slows disease progression in preclinical testing

M102, an experimental oral therapy designed to simultaneously activate two molecular pathways that protect against nerve cell damage, showed promise in preclinical models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), according to a study. The compound, discovered and developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield’s Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN)…