The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has awarded up to $7 million to Enterprise Therapeutics to develop a compound that targets a non-CFTR chloride channel in lung cells. If successful, the drug could help mucus become more hydrated and easier to clear from the lungs of all people with CF, regardless of their CFTR mutations.
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The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced today that it has licensed a compound to the biopharmaceutical company AbbVie to develop into a potential CFTR modulator treatment.
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Inc. announced an award of up to $5M to Editas Medicine Inc. to advance potential gene editing approaches for cystic fibrosis.
Researchers' catalog of airway cell types could reveal targets for future genetic therapies
Today, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted its application to expand Trikafta® (elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor) to include children ages 6-11 years old with cystic fibrosis who have at least one F508del or a mutation in the CFTR gene that is responsive based on in vitro data. The FDA has granted priority review of the application and has indicated that it will make a decision by June 8, 2021.
Roche has acquired a set of potentiator compounds from Enterprise Therapeutics and intends to study them for the treatment of CF. The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation previously provided funding to Enterprise to develop these potential medicines.
Dr. Frank Accurso, director of cystic fibrosis clinical research at Children's Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado Denver, participated in a congressional roundtable discussion at National Jewish Health in Denver, Colorado.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today expanded its approval of three CFTR modulators to include additional people with CF who have certain rare mutations. The approval enables more than 600 individuals with CF who were not previously eligible for modulators to access drugs that treat the underlying cause of their disease for the first time.
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation invited more than 100 scientists to its research conference in Savannah, Ga., last month to discuss recent advancements in gene therapy, gene editing and stem-cell biology and how these new technologies could be applied to finding a one-time cure for cystic fibrosis.