Trodelvy Gets Orphan Drug Designation as a Glioblastoma Treatment
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Trodelvy Gets Orphan Drug Designation as a Glioblastoma Treatment

According to a story from GlobeNewswire, the biopharmaceutical company Immunomedics, Inc., has recently announced that its medication sacituzumab govitecan-hziy (marketed as Trodelvy) has recently earned Orphan Drug designation from the…

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Gene Therapy Receives Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for Sandhoff Disease and Tay-Sachs Disease
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Gene Therapy Receives Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for Sandhoff Disease and Tay-Sachs Disease

According to a story from GlobeNewswire, the gene therapy company Axovant Gene Therapies Ltd. recently announced that its gene therapy AXO-AAV-GM2 has been given Rare Pediatric Disease designation by the…

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The Glanzmann’s Research Foundation: Dedicated to Finding a Cure
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The Glanzmann’s Research Foundation: Dedicated to Finding a Cure

Patient Worthy has recently begun a partnership with the Glanzmann's Research Foundation, a nonprofit patient organization dedicated to spreading awareness about Glanzmann's thrombasthenia and finding a cure. We spoke with…

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Experimental WHIM Syndrome Treatment Gets FDA Fast Track Designation
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Experimental WHIM Syndrome Treatment Gets FDA Fast Track Designation

According to a story from GlobeNewswire, the biopharmaceutical company X4 Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has just announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted its investigational product candidate mavorixafor…

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Zeposia as a Treatment for Ulcerative Colitis Shows Positive Results in Phase 3 Trial
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Zeposia as a Treatment for Ulcerative Colitis Shows Positive Results in Phase 3 Trial

According to a story from Pharma Advancement, Bristol Myers Squibb recently announced encouraging findings from a phase 3 clinical trial. This study was testing its drug ozanimod (marketed as Zeposia)…

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Massachusetts General Cancer Center Receives the First Incyte Ingenuity Award for GvHD
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Massachusetts General Cancer Center Receives the First Incyte Ingenuity Award for GvHD

The global biopharmaceutical company Incyte recently announced the first-ever recipient of its Incyte Ingenuity Award, which will be the Massachusetts General Cancer Center (MGCC). The purpose of this award is…

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Experimental Gene Therapy Program for Hunter Syndrome (MPS II) Begins Expanding
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Experimental Gene Therapy Program for Hunter Syndrome (MPS II) Begins Expanding

According to a story from PR Newswire, the biotechnology company REGENXBIO Inc. has recently announced plans to expand its RGX-121 developmental program. RGX-121 is being developed as a potential one-time…

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American Kidney Fund and Sanofi Genzyme Partner up for New Fabry Disease Campaign
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American Kidney Fund and Sanofi Genzyme Partner up for New Fabry Disease Campaign

According to a press release from the American Kidney Fund (AKF), the organization, which is dedicated to fighting kidney disease, has partnered with the biotech company Sanofi Genzyme in a…

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Can AI and Machine Learning Help Rare Patients Get Diagnosed and Treated Faster?
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Can AI and Machine Learning Help Rare Patients Get Diagnosed and Treated Faster?

A research team from IPM.ai, a subsidiary of Swoop, and Insmed, a biotechnology company, recently collaborated on a case study that demonstrated how AI and machine learning could be used…

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Experimental Treatment for Fabry Disease to be Made Available Under Expanded Access
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Experimental Treatment for Fabry Disease to be Made Available Under Expanded Access

According to a story from PR Newswire, Chiesi Global Rare Diseases and the biopharmaceutical company Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. have recently announced that they have launched an Expanded Access Program (EAP)…

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Potential Osteogenesis Imperfecta Treatment Receives Rare Pediatric Disease Designation
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Potential Osteogenesis Imperfecta Treatment Receives Rare Pediatric Disease Designation

According to a story from BioSpace, the biopharmaceutical company Mereo BioPharma Group recently announced that its investigational therapy setrusumab has earned Rare Pediatric Disease designation from the US Food and…

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Experimental Compound Shows Benefit in Mouse Model of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type 1A
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Experimental Compound Shows Benefit in Mouse Model of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type 1A

According to a story from Charcot-Marie-Tooth News, an experimental HDAC6 inhibitor called CKD-504 appeared to restore myelination in mouse and cell models of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A in a recent…

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