Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a disease characterized by extensive damage over time to motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Motor neurons are nerve cells responsible for the communication, or the signals, taking place between the brain and the muscles. Due to this damage, the brain is…
OrphAI Therapeutics’ experimental therapy AIT-101 has been awarded orphan drug status in the European Union for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), following a similar designation granted in the U.S. last year. In Europe, orphan drug status is given to medicines designed to treat life-threatening or chronically debilitating conditions affecting…
Treatment with CNM-Au8 was shown to significantly prolong survival — relative to the natural history of the disease — among people with advanced amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who took part in two expanded access programs (EAP), also known as compassionate use programs. The findings from these EAPs, which…
An advisory committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended that Biogen’s Qalsody (tofersen) be approved in the European Union under exceptional circumstances to treat adults with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) associated with SOD1 gene mutations. The positive opinion from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use,…
Health Canada has issued a notice of noncompliance-withdrawal saying it won’t approve the oral therapy masitinib as an add-on treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Its developer, AB Science, can submit a request for reconsideration within the next month, which it plans to do, it announced in…
ProJenX has been given the green light to expand its ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of prosetin for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) across the Atlantic Ocean to testing sites in Europe. The PRO-101 trial (NCT05279755), launched in 2022, is a three-part study evaluating prosetin’s safety, tolerability, and pharmacological…
Denali Therapeutics’ SAR443820 (DNL788) treatment candidate — now in late-stage clinical testing for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), per the company’s website — has failed to significantly slow disease progression in adults in a Phase 2 trial. The experimental therapy “did not meet the primary endpoint of change” in outcomes…
An experimental gene therapy called CTx1000, which is designed to reduce toxic buildups of the protein TDP-43 in nerve cells, was found to significantly extend survival and improve motor function in mouse models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and the related disorder frontotemporal dementia, known as FTD. According to…
TPN-101, an investigational oral molecule developed by Transposon Therapeutics, reduced multiple biomarkers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration, and slowed respiratory decline in some people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and/or frontotemporal dementia (FTD). That’s according to an interim analysis of a Phase 2a clinical trial (NCT04993755) that’s testing…
An unprecedented $58 million donation to the ALS Association is a “beacon of hope” for the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) community and will finance treatment centers, aid to financially strapped patients, and clinical trials of promising treatments, according to the U.S.-based nonprofit. The donation from the estate…
