Funding Expands Access to SLS-005 Via Compassionate Use

Seelos Therapeutics is planning to launch an expanded access program (EAP) that gives people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who are not eligible for clinical trials the opportunity to access the company’s investigational therapy SLS-005. The program will be conducted in collaboration with the Sean M. Healey &…

Seelos’ SLS-005 Cleared as 5th Arm of HEALEY ALS Trial

Seelos Therapeutics’ experimental therapy SLS-005 (trehalose) will serve as the fifth arm of the multi-regimen HEALEY trial for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), after being cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Mass General Brigham Institutional Review Board. With this final regulatory authorization, Seelos may still…

SLS-005 Earns Orphan Drug Status in Europe

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted orphan drug designation to Seelos Therapeutics‘ investigational therapy SLS-005 for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the company announced in a press release. Orphan drug status in Europe is given to medicines with the potential to be safe and…

EMA Group Favors Naming SLS-005 an Orphan Drug for ALS

A committee with the European Medicines Agency favors designating Seelos Therapeutics‘ investigational therapy SLS-005 (trehalose) an orphan drug as a potential treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the company announced in a press release. The opinion, issued by the Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP), will now go to the…