Parkinson’s

News round-up by DDW’s Megan Thomas for 6 – 10 September  DDW’s Megan Thomas selects five stories which showcase results, data, partnerships and research which offer a promising future for both drug development and eventual treatment of a number of diseases.   New potential therapy for schizophrenia patients  Newron Pharmaceuticals has initiated Study 008A, the first potentially […]

BIAL has entered into an agreement with Sunovion Pharmaceuticals whereby BIAL received exclusive commercial license rights to commercialise apomorphine sublingual film in the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom.  Apomorphine sublingual film (APL-130277) is a novel thin film formulation of apomorphine that dissolves under the tongue for the acute, intermittent treatment […]

Bial and Medis have partnered on two of Bial’s proprietary drugs: Zebinix (eslicarbazepine acetate) and Ongentys (opicapone). The established partnership comprises an exclusive distribution agreement for Zebinix in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and an exclusive distribution agreement for Ongentys in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, […]

IRICoR, a pan-Canadian drug discovery and research commercialisation centre, Université de Montréal (UdeM), the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Université de Montréal, and Valence Discovery, an emerging leader in AI-enabled drug design, have announced a collaboration focused on the discovery of novel drug candidates for the treatment of levodopa-induced dyskinesia in […]

‍IRICoR, a pan-Canadian drug discovery and research commercialisation centre, Université de Montréal (UdeM), the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Université de Montréal, and Valence Discovery, AI-enabled drug designer, have announced a collaboration focussing on the discovery of novel drug candidates for the treatment of levodopa-induced dyskinesia in Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s disease […]

A double-blind clinical trial, will investigate if a drug used to treat nausea in chemotherapy patients, could alleviate hallucinations in people with Parkinson’s. Parkinson’s UK, the largest charitable funder of Parkinson’s research in Europe, is partnering with UCL, and investing £1 million in a pioneering Phase II clinical trial to explore if the drug ondansetron […]