Aqualung Therapeutic’s ALT-100 Antibody Significantly Reduces ARDS Severity in Both Rat and Porcine (Large Animal) Preclinical Models

TUCSON, AZ / ACCESSWIRE / February 1, 2022 / Aqualung Therapeutics, an early-stage immunotherapeutics biotech company developing an anti-inflammatory therapeutic platform for unchecked inflammation, a characteristic of serious acute diseases; has published a study in Scientific Reports (Tadeo Bermudez lead author) highlighting the effectiveness of the eNAMPT-neutralizing ALT-100 monoclonal antibody (mAb)in reducing Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)/Ventilator Induced Lung Injury (VILI) symptoms in both rat and porcine animal models.
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C-Path and the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases to Expand Global Impact and Partnership

PARIS, France and TUCSON, Ariz., U.S., February 1, 2022 — Critical Path Institute (C-Path), an independent global nonprofit organization, and the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD), an initiative that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, have announced a collaboration to advance technologies and methodologies that are fit for regulatory purposes to further global rare disease research and drug development.Continue reading

Preclinical studies show Aqualung Therapeutic’s eNAMPT- targeting ALT-100 mAb to reduce severity of aggressive prostate cancer

Preclinical prostate cancer (PCa] studies published in the December 17th, 2021 issue of Pharmaceuticals show Aqualung Therapeutic’s ALT-100 mAb to significantly improve overall survival and to reduce distal metastases in SCID mice implanted with human prostate cancer (PCa] cells. Aqualung Therapeutics is an early stage immunotherapeutics company with an anti-inflammatory therapeutic platform to address life-threatening unchecked inflammation.

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Arizona State University Biodesign Institute receives three new grants totaling $5.2 million to advance the fight against Parkinson’s disease

The Michael J. Fox Foundation has awarded three new grants totaling $5.2 million to Arizona State University (ASU) to explore three pioneering treatments for Parkinson’s disease (PD).

The awards will fund research led by Principal Investigator Dr. Jeffrey H. Kordower, each targeting underlying causes of the disease, which currently affects nearly 1 million people in the U.S. alone.

The new projects focus on two primary hallmarks of PD: the loss of dopamine-producing neurons in the brain and the accumulation within nerve cells of a misfolded form of the protein alpha-synuclein (α-syn).

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