Forward momentum for Roche and Wave in latest news about huntingtin-lowering trials
In the past week or so, during and following a big HD research conference, two companies developing medicines for Huntington’s disease announced news about their huntingtin-lowering drugs. First, the pharmaceutical company Roche announced plans for a new clinical trial of tominersen. Then, the genetic medicines company Wave Life Sciences shared early data showing that its […]
Focusing in on fibrils; scientists give us a glimpse of huntingtin protein clumps
A group of scientists from the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland have published a paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, describing clumps made up of a fragment of the huntingtin protein. A word that’s commonly used to describe these is “aggregates.” Using very powerful microscopes, the team was able to zoom in and […]
Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF) conference 2022 – Day 4
DNA repair and CAG repeat instability The effect of HTT lowering on CAG repeat expansions Welcome to last day of the @hdfcures conference! We’ll only be sharing a few talks from today’s sessions, which focus on DNA repair. The first is from HDBuzz’s very own Jeff Carroll! Jeff will be sharing his work on HTT […]
Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF) conference 2022 – Day 3
Pre-clinical work moving toward trials New tools to lower HTT showing promise in animal models Welcome back! The first talk we will be tweeting about today is from Anastasia Khvorova, who will be telling us about her teams work on lowering of Huntingtin using technology called RNAi. One of the problems in studying drug delivery […]
Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF) conference 2022 – Day 2
We’re back for day 2 at @hdfcures! This morning’s talks will be focused on clinical trial planning and therapeutic updates from clinical studies. The sheer number of talks related to human trials compared to previous years is so encouraging! Updating metrics for clinical trials A better system for disease categorization The first talk of this […]
Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF) conference 2022 – Day 1
Hello and welcome from the HDBuzz team who are currently at the Hereditary Disease Foundation (@hdfcures) 2022 Milton Wexler Biennial Symposium in Boston! It’s the dawn of an exciting new era for HDBuzz. Due to our new partnership with @hdfcures, we are now able to live tweet many of the talks from this meeting which […]
