FundaMental Pharma, a spin-out preclinical neuroscience company from Heidelberg University, in Germany, has just been launched with €10 million in startup seed funding and a goal of developing new treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other diseases, according to a company…
An international team of researchers discovered how, during development, motor neurons — the nerve cells controlling movement whose death causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — direct blood vessel growth around them while growing toward target muscles. Specifically, motor neurons were found to secrete a combination of signaling molecules that…
NeuroSense Therapeutics has received the go-ahead to begin enrolling patients in the U.S. and Italy for a Phase 2b clinical trial testing PrimeC, the company’s experimental therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The clinical trial, called PARADIGM (NCT05357950), enrolled its first participant in June. The study is…
A Phase 1/2 clinical trial is investigating the long-term safety and tolerability of BIIB105, Biogen‘s investigational treatment targeting the ataxin-2 protein, in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Called ALSpire (NCT04494256), the trial is currently recruiting adults with ALS at 12 sites in the U.S., Canada, and…
ET-101, Eikonoklastes Therapeutics’ experimental gene therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), has been designated an orphan drug by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Orphan drug status is given to investigational therapies with the potential to significantly benefit people with life-threatening or chronically debilitating diseases that affect…
The Lifestyle Healing Institute (LHI), which uses a complementary and alternative medicine approach to care, is touting the success of an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient whose mobility and quality of life are said to have improved following treatment. The case of Tod, a 60-year-old patient, demonstrates that…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notified Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics that it will not accept for review a company application asking that its cell-based therapy NurOwn be approved as a treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The FDA decision, in the form of a refusal to file…
Radicava Oral Suspension, an oral formulation of edaravone, has been approved in Canada for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Canada (MTP-CA), the subsidiary of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America that markets Radicava in Canada, has announced plans to make the oral formula available to patients…
The investigational cell-based therapy NurOwn may slow disease progression in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who have less severe disease, according to analyses from a Phase 3 trial. Researchers’ analyses excluded patients with the lowest scores on the ALS Functional Rating Scale–Revised (ALSFRS-R) or in individual…
Early declines in neurofilament light chain (NfL), a biomarker of nerve cell damage, after treatment with tofersen may predict a slower disease progression over time in people with SOD1-associated amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Patients who received tofersen early also experienced a significantly slower worsening of clinical function than…
