The additional funding will support a Phase 2 clinical trial for an inhaled antisense oligonucleotide drug for people with cystic fibrosis who have the splicing mutation 3849+10Kb C-to-T.
Funding will support a Phase 2b trial of phage therapy for chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections.
The funding will help support research into the development of potential new modulator therapies for people with cystic fibrosis with an F508del mutation.
Prime Medicine’s prime editing technology has the potential to bring genetic therapies to all people with cystic fibrosis, ultimately paving the way to a cure.
Clarametyx’s novel therapy aims to disrupt bacterial biofilms, one of the primary causes of antibiotic resistance, thereby potentially increasing the effectiveness of existing treatments in fighting a wide range of bacterial infections, including those commonly affecting people with CF.
ViaNautis’ non-viral delivery mechanism, polyNaut®, aims to improve delivery of genetic therapies to the cells of people with CF.
Since 2011, the Foundation has awarded $2.5 million across 35 different projects to improve cystic fibrosis newborn screening across the country.
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is providing additional funding to Arcturus Therapeutics to develop an inhaled messenger RNA therapy for CF that provides lung cells with the correct instructions to make functional cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator protein. The funding brings our total commitment to Arcturus to approximately $25 million.
Nosis Bio, an inaugural winner of the Foundation’s Golden Ticket Competition, receives funding to further explore design of novel ligands, which are specialized molecules that could help more precise targeting of relevant cells in the lung.
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is providing additional funds to TB Alliance to advance the development of a compound that could be used to treat infections caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria.