May 15th is recognized each year as Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) Awareness Day. The goal of this day is to help spread awareness about this group of diseases among the general public…
Sanofi There are an estimated 350 million rare disease patients across the world. Many conditions still don't have treatments. However, there are scientists dedicating their lives solely to this endeavor.…
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On February 3, 2020, twenty-seven newly installed flags of the European Union stood in the gleaming lobby of the new European Medicines Agency (EMA) headquarters in Amsterdam. The Charcot-Marie-Tooth…
According to a story from globenewswire.com, the biopharmaceutical company Inventiva is scheduled to present the findings from a recent phase IIa clinical trial at the upcoming 16th Annual WorldSymposium™ which is…
The gleaming new Dutch headquarters of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), fronting Domenico Scarlattilaan in Amsterdam’s suburban Zuidas business district, finally opened for business last month — just over two…
According to a story from BioBuzz, the innovation of a platform for the delivery of gene therapies could help trigger a golden age of development for this new class of…
Inventiva has recently completed Phase IIa of their clinical trial of odiparcil, a drug made for the treatment of mucopolysaccharidosis type VI (MPS VI). Iventiva is very excited about the…
A recent meta-analyses of clinical studies and case reports that examined the safety of idursulfase therapy, which is an enzyme therapy, has shown that this form of treatment is…
East Anglia's Children's Hospices in Norfolk, U.K., has recently opened up its new facilities after renovations. To celebrate this opening, Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, visited and spoke…
According to a story from governmenteuropa.eu, Professor Susanne Kircher, who is associated with the Austrian MPS Society and the Medical University of Vienna, writes about the state of rare diseases…
According to a story from Benzinga, the biopharmaceutical company Inventiva has recently announced that it has recruited the first patients in a study of biomarkers in Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome. The study…
According to a story from sectorpublishingintelligence.co.uk, the biopharmaceutical company Orchard Therapeutics recently announced the release of some data from an ongoing proof-of-concept study. This special trial is testing the company's…
The Isaac Foundation The Isaac Foundation was established by a man named Andrew McFadyen. He created the organization in 2007 in honor of his son who is diagnosed with the rare…
According to a story from forextv.com, the biopharmaceutical company Seelos Therapeutics, Inc. has recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted their Investigational New Drug (IND)…
According to a story from BioSpace, the biopharmaceutical company CANBridge Pharmaceuticals announced that it has recently submitted a New Drug Application with China's National Medicinal Products Administration (NMPA) for its…
According to a publication from ET Healthworld, some 21 rare disease patients in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh are still awaiting governmental financial assistance to which they are legally…
According to a press release from the French biotechnology company Inventiva, the company has completed recruitment for a phase 2 clinical trial evaluating its experimental mucopolysaccharidosis VI drug, odiparcil. About…
According to a story from globenewswire.com, the biopharmaceutical company Denali Therapeutics, Inc. has recently announced that its experimental product candidate DNL310, which is currently being developed as a treatment for…
According to a publication from BioPortfolio, China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA — similar to the American FDA) recently approved BioMarin's mucopolysaccharidosis type IVA drug Vimizim for use in the…
According to a story from Market Screener, the biotechnology company BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. recently announced that the Chinese government has approved the company's drug elosulfase alfa (marketed at Vimizim) as…
According to a publication from Biospace, British clinical drug developer Orchard Therapeutics has secured global intellectual property rights to research, manufacture, and market a gene therapy program for the treatment…
According to a publication from KYN24, the Food and Drug Administration recently approved mucopolysaccharidosis type VII (MPS VII) drug Mepsevii for marketing and administration to patients in the United States.…
A recent press release from the French biopharmaceutical company Inventiva announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted the company's experimental mucopolysaccharidosis VI (MPS VI) drug odiparcil rare…
The Daily News recently published an announcement by researchers at Sangamo Therapeutics showing the results of its first human trial to treat two rare genetic disorders through gene-editing technology. Gene-editing (or…
According to a story from Market Screener the biotechnology company Bioblast Pharma has announced a new partnership with Team Sanfilippo a nonprofit foundation which is committed to medical research related…
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