Dear Congress, The recently enacted federal Right to Try Law (RTT) is really a “Right to Ask” law. And, for the pharmaceutical companies, it’s a “Right to Say No.” Which they certainly almost always will. Case in point: BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics pre-emptively announced that NurOwn, its ALS stem cell treatment candidate,…
Read the Articles Here: Dysfunctional ALS Patient Skin-Derived Muscle Neurons Rescued by Kenpaullone ALS and Other Neurological Disorders May Benefit from Prions Created in Lab Genervon’s GM604 May Slow Disease Progression in ALS Patients…
ALS News Today has published daily coverage of ALS-related advocacy events, clinical trials, and research throughout the year. As 2015 finally winds down, ALS News Today has compiled the top 10 ALS news stories of 2015, ranked according to the number of views each news story received. #10 — “Mechanism Underlying…
Genervon Biopharmaceuticals recently announced it has filed a patent application based on data from the Phase 2A clinical trial (GALS001 study, NCT01854294) assessing the company’s product GM604 as a therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and data from a single ALS compassionate patient study (GALS-C). ALS is a…
In a highly unusual move, last Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a statement calling on pharmaceutical firm Genervon to release all data pertaining to a recent small study involving the company’s ALS drug candidate GM604. In its statement, the FDA affirms that it…
Patients who suffer from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are joining efforts in new ways to support the approval of legislation known as the “Right to Try” law. After a series of online forums and petitions, an ALS patient was granted an audience at Capitol Hill to read a letter about…
Biopharmaceutical company Genervon recently reported observing improvements in a 46-year-old-man with advanced amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) taking the Company’s drug candidate GM604. The patient showed increased speech, swallowing and suction capabilities after a 12-week treatment. The drug, which has yet to be approved by the…
