clinical-trial
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Blue skies for Skyhawk: Positive news from Phase 1 trial for SKY-0515
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There’s more good news in the forecast in the Huntington’s disease therapeutic space as we receive positive results from Skyhawk Therapeutics about their small molecule SKY-0515 that lowers huntingtin and targets somatic expansion.
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Buckle in: Gene therapy AMT-130 appears to slow down signs of Huntington’s disease in Phase I/II clinical trial
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More good news for the HD community from uniQure, whose one-and-done gene therapy appears safe and shows hints of slowing down signs and symptoms of the disease
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Positive news from Wave Life Sciences SELECT-HD trial
9 min read
The outcomes of the SELECT-HD clinical trial are out, with encouraging news for this allele-selective huntingtin lowering therapy
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No pivot needed for PTC-518
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PTC Therapeutics shared 12 month data from the PIVOT-HD trial, testing the oral HTT lowering drug PTC-518. While designed to assess safety, they shared encouraging results that the drug showed promising signs for biomarkers and some clinical metrics.
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Huntington's Disease Therapeutics Conference 2024 – Day 3
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HDBuzz is back for the last day of the CHDI HD Therapeutics Conference: Thursday February 29th in Palm Springs, California. This article summarizes our real-time updates of the conference in community-friendly language. From genes to medicines The morning session will focus on how human genetics is driving the development of therapeutics. “Genetic modifiers” are genes…
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Putting it in print: GENERATION HD1 study results published
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Data from GENERATION HD1, the Phase 3 clinical trial testing the huntingtin-lowering drug tominersen, have just been published in a scientific journal. The trial ended a while back, so why is this an important milestone, and what’s next?
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Beyond huntingtin lowering: out-of-the-box approaches for the treatment of HD
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The HD pipeline is rich and varied. Let's talk about some out-of-the-box approaches for developing drugs for HD that don't involve huntingtin lowering.
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Drug to treat movement symptoms of HD approved by FDA
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The FDA has approved valbenazine, also known as INGREZZA, as a treatment for the movement symptoms of Huntington’s disease
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Updates from PTC Therapeutics and uniQure on their huntingtin-lowering trials
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Both PTC Therapeutics and uniQure have shared updates from their respective clinical trials, testing different huntingtin-lowering approaches. We explore the data presented from both of these studies and what this means for HD family members.
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PROOF-HD study of pridopidine ends with negative result
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The phase 3 trial missed its primary endpoint of slowing loss of function in Huntington’s disease