The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) awarded Lysoway Therapeutics $3.4 million in funding to support the development of an investigational therapy targeting the TMEM175 protein. The grant is part of the foundation’s Parkinson’s Disease Therapeutics Pipeline Program, which aims to accelerate the development of potential…
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As I’ve mentioned in previous columns, my family and I did our best to support my late uncle Brandon after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. We all pitched in, so there was almost always someone around to help him out. At least, that was the plan. One…
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More than 2,000 potential participants have been identified for screening in a Parkinson’s clinical trial, thanks to the Parkinson’s Foundation‘s PD Trial Navigator matching program. The Phase 2 trial (NCT06680830), known as NEULARK, is evaluating Neuron23‘s experimental therapy, NEU-411, in up to 150 people with early-stage,…
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There are moments when a disease stops being only a medical story and becomes a public trust story. A prevention story. A question of whether the people who know enough to act will do so in time. I think Parkinson’s disease is having one of those moments now. For years,…
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Patient enrollment has started in a Phase 2a clinical trial evaluating Jotrol, an oral formulation of resveratrol developed by Jupiter Neurosciences as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease, the company has announced. The RESET trial (NCT07592767) is recruiting up to 30 patients at three sites in…
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A University of Minnesota Medical School team has received a $6 million grant to design mouse models for the study of genetic variants linked to Parkinson’s disease. “These models could help us better understand how Parkinson’s disease works and support testing of potential therapies in early stages of research,”…
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