Tag: preclinical
-
Small Biz Grant Supports Regenerative Alzheimer’s Treatment
A new award from National Institutes of Health funds preclinical work to prepare for a clinical trial assessing a treatment to reverse brain signaling damage in people with Alzheimer’s disease.
-
Autoimmune Neuro Disease Start-Up Raises $58M
A new company developing treatments for neurological and psychiatric diseases from aberrant immune system activity is raising $58 million in seed funds.
-
Neurons from Stem Cells Produced for Overdose Therapy Tests
Researchers use stem cells to generate human neurons resembling those in the brain that control breathing during opioid reactions, for eventual chip devices to test overdose therapies.
-
Grant Funds Typhoid Vaccine Patch Development
A health research foundation grant is funding development of a vaccine protecting against typhoid fever, given in a patch from from a spring-loaded device.
-
Company Gains Ultrasound-Linked Drug Capsule Technology
A company developing a drug delivery process with treatments activated by ultrasound received an option to license a key technology from its founders’ university labs.
-
Biotech, A.I. Companies Model Animal Studies/Clinical Trials
A discoverer of neuroscience therapies and a genomics data science company are developing machine learning models to predict clinical trial outcomes for ADHD drugs.
-
Companies to Assess Ovarian Health Biotech Drug
A women’s health biotechnology company is partnering with a Brazilian drug maker to evaluate a precision target and treatment for ovarian health disorders.
-
Streamlined Gene Therapy Delivery Process Demonstrated
A group of academic and industry researchers exhibited in lab cells and mice a more direct delivery technique that could make gene therapies more accessible and inexpensive.
-
Trial Cleared for Lab-Grown Replacement Knee Cartilage
A biotechnology company creating living tissue from a person’s stem cells says it received FDA clearance for a clinical trial of its replacement knee cartilage.
-
Biochip Device Tests Malaria Drug Efficacy, Safety
A lab-on-a-chip device with human organ cells is shown in lab tests to distinguish between malaria strains and detect drug toxicity when assessing blood for seven days.