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10 Key Learnings from Successful Cellular and Gene Therapy Trials for Rare Diseases

XTalks

Awareness of rare diseases is growing, and with a better understanding of the pathophysiology of many rare diseases, innovative treatment options are emerging, like gene therapies that can treat the root cause of rare genetic diseases and potentially provide long-term symptom relief, or even a definitive cure.

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Endometriosis partners to discover personalised treatments

Drug Discovery World

PrecisionLife and the University of Oxford have signed a data access agreement to license the Oxford Endometriosis Gene (OXEGENE) dataset to develop new personalised treatments for endometriosis patients. Endometriosis affects 10% of women globally, but on average it takes over seven years for patients to receive a diagnosis.

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RNA editing oligonucleotide selected for AATD treatment 

Drug Discovery World

Context and treatment potential AATD is an inherited, autosomal recessive genetic disorder that is most frequently caused by a single nucleotide variant (SNV) mutation in the SERPINA1 gene, the most common of which is the ‘PiZ’ mutation.

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Adial Pharmaceuticals Provides Update on its ONWARD(TM) Pivotal Phase 3 Trial of AD04 for Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder

The Pharma Data

ONWARD is investigating Adial’s lead drug candidate, AD04, as a therapeutic agent for the treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) in persons with certain target genotypes related to the serotonin transporter and receptor genes. Key ONWARD highlights include: All 25 planned investigative sites are active.

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Global Roundup: Overland Pharma Launches in China to Provide Access to Breakthrough Therapies

The Pharma Data

The Chinese biopharmaceutical industry is growing in leaps and bounds, but there is still a huge unmet need when it comes to getting patients access to the breakthrough therapeutic modalities and platforms like RNAi, cell and gene therapy and others. A solution could be at hand with Overland Pharmaceuticals.

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