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Collaboration to study PrimeC’s impacts on ALS disease mechanisms

NeuroSense Therapeutics has joined researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital to study the impact of its investigational therapy PrimeC on key amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) processes. The collaboration will the headed by Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili, director of the Neuroepigenetics laboratory at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease. Using a new…

BrainStorm nets NurOwn ADCOM meeting over FDA objections

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold an advisory committee meeting to discuss BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics‘ application to approve NurOwn for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Such a meeting, called an ADCOM, is normally for when a therapy is under regulatory review so experts can discuss its…

FDA panel votes in favor of tofersen biomarker data

Changes in neurofilament light chain (NfL) levels — a biomarker of nerve cell damage — were deemed by an advisory committee reasonably likely to predict clinical efficacy from tofersen in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) caused by SOD1 gene mutations. The unanimous vote from the Peripheral and Central Nervous…