Cardiometabolic News
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Lumen Bioscience Receives Broad Funding Support for Advancement of Antibiotic Alternative for Preventing Traveler’s Diarrhea
Lumen Bioscience, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing biologic drugs for highly prevalent diseases, today announced several funding milestones supporting the development of its therapeutics to prevent serious diarrheal diseases. The first is a $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a second Phase 2 study of an improved anti-campylobacter therapeutic, ...
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Aerami Therapeutics Announces Completion of Dosing in Phase 1 Trial of AER-901 (inhaled imatinib), a Critical Milestone Toward the Planned Initiation of a Phase 2 Trial in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) During the First Half of 2023
AER-901 (inhaled imatinib), a potential reverse-remodeling therapy, is being developed to address unmet need for PAH treatments that target pulmonary vascular remodeling while supporting ease-of-use for patients. PAH is a rare and progressive disease with no cure; pulmonary vascular remodeling is believed to drive disease progression and poor outcomes, however, all currently approved therapies ...
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Aerami Therapeutics Appoints Lisa Yanez as Chief Executive Officer
Aerami Therapeutics Holdings, Inc (“Aerami”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to breathing life into the treatment of serious cardiopulmonary and cardiometabolic conditions, today announced the appointment of Lisa Yañez as chief executive officer, effective January 1, 2023. As part of a planned leadership transition, Steve Thornton will retire as CEO at the ...
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Lumen Bioscience Awarded $3.6 Million by U.S. Army to Advance Low-cost, Scalable Preventative for Antibiotic-Resistant Infections
Lumen Bioscience—a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing biologic drugs for highly prevalent diseases—today announced the receipt of a $3.6 million award from the Department of Defense (DoD) for advanced biomedical product development in support of Naval operations. The award from the Medical Technology Consortium (MTEC), a 501(c)(3) biomedical technology consortium ...
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Inversago Pharma Doses First Patient in Phase 2 Trial of INV-202, an Oral, Peripherally-acting CB1 Inverse Agonist, in Patients with Diabetic Kidney Disease
Inversago Pharma Inc. (“Inversago”), a clinical stage biotech company with a unique portfolio of peripherally-acting CB1 inverse agonists, today announced that the first patient has been dosed with INV-202 in a Phase 2 clinical trial in subjects with diabetic kidney disease (DKD). The Phase 2 trial of INV-202, a first-in-class, peripherally-acting CB1 inverse agonist, is a ...
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Lumen Bioscience Announces Publication in NPJ Vaccines of Preclinical Data Demonstrating Needle Free, Spirulina-produced Vaccination Offering Protection Against Malaria
Lumen Bioscience, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing biologic drugs for highly prevalent diseases, today announced the publication of data demonstrating a needle-free, spirulina-produced recombinant vaccine that protects against malaria. The research, conducted in collaboration with the University of Washington, was published in the peer-reviewed journal, Nature Partner ...
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Inversago Pharma receives IND clearance for Phase 2 trial of INV-202 in Diabetic Kidney Disease
Inversago Pharma Inc. (“Inversago”), a clinical stage biotech company with a unique portfolio of peripherally-acting CB1 inverse agonists, has received FDA clearance of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for a phase 2 study in Diabetic Kidney Disease (DKD) for INV-202, the Company’s lead program. Inversago scientists identified Diabetic Kidney Disease as the most ...
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Lumen Bioscience Announces Publication in Nature Biotechnology Detailing Spirulina-Based Platform for Ultra-Large-Scale Production of Therapeutic Proteins
Researchers describe rapid, low-cost drug development approach Paper also reports preclinical and early clinical data for LMN-101 A common food source has been converted into a biomanufacturing platform that offers a way to rapidly produce mass quantities of biologic drugs for common diseases that currently lack effective treatments. Researchers at Lumen Bioscience report in Nature ...
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Dicerna Announces Two Targets Meet Preclinical Proof of Principle Criteria in Neurodegeneration and Pain Under Global Research Collaboration and Licensing Agreement With Lilly
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: DRNA), a leading developer of investigational ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi) therapeutics, today announced that Eli Lilly and Company (“Lilly”) has declared proof of principle for the first two targets in the companies’ exclusive relationship in neurodegeneration and pain, under the companies’ global research and licensing ...
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Study reveals elevated risk of cardiovascular disease in young women who had gestational diabetes during pregnancy
New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for Study of Diabetes [EASD]) shows that, in women who develop gestational diabetes (GDM) during pregnancy, the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the years following childbirth is doubled compared to women who do not develop GDM. This increased risk remains even if women who had GDM do not go on to develop full ...
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