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Regulator and Funder? FDA’s Orphan Products Grants Program awards significant funding to help move promising treatments through clinical development

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plays a pivotal role in fostering the development of treatments for rare diseases through its Orphan Products Grants Program. Each year, FDA selects a limited number of clinical trials to fund to help sponsors pursue development of medical products for rare diseases and advance their field.

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Lilly’s Lepodisiran Achieves Over 90% Reduction in Heart Disease Marker in Phase II Trial

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Eli Lilly shared new Phase II trial data showing that its experimental siRNA therapy, lepodisiran, leads to reductions in levels of lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) a genetically inherited risk factor for heart disease in adults with elevated levels of the marker. The 400 mg dose was the highest lepodisiran dose in the trial.

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RHYTHM AI cleared for large trial of atrial fibrillation mapping tool

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UK-based RHYTHM AI is to go ahead with a larger clinical trial of its artificial intelligence (AI)-driven system, which could be used as a treatment for atrial fibrillation without the need for medication. Clinical development of the system got off the ground last year when the company announced the closure of a £2.15m financing round.

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BlueRock Therapeutics Announces Completion of Enrollment of Phase 1 Trial in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

The Pharma Data

BlueRock Therapeutics LP, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Bayer?AG, the completion of enrollment of its Phase 1 (Ph1), open-label trial of pluripotent stem cell-derived dopaminergic neurons in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). AG, announced?the The purpose of the?Ph1 preliminary?efficacy?of

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Novo Nordisk moves chronic kidney disease drug ziltivekimab into phase 3

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Novo Nordisk has announced plans to move its ziltivekimab into phase 3 clinical development in atherosclerosis with chronic kidney disease after a mid-stage trial met its main goal. Data were announced at the virtual American College of Cardiology annual conference and published simultaneously in The Lancet.

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BlueRock secures FDA fast track; Omniscient rakes in $29M; Neuspera’s nerve implant gets a $65M boost Rivus’ therapy nabs $35M

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This early-stage trial is set to enroll ten patients across the US and Canada, with its primary aim to evaluate the safety and tolerability of DA01 cell transplantation at one year post-transplant. BlueRock Therapeutics secures FDA fast track for Parkinson’s disease cell therapy.

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Vericiguat approved in Japan to treat patients with chronic heart failure

The Pharma Data

The approval is based on the results of the pivotal Phase III VICTORIA trial, published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in March 2020. Bayer is proud of the approval of vericiguat in Japan and the contribution it has shown in clinical trials.”. The companies share equally the costs of the development of vericiguat.