More than 2,000 potential participants have been identified for screening in a Parkinson’s clinical trial, thanks to the Parkinson’s Foundation‘s PD Trial Navigator matching program. The Phase 2 trial (NCT06680830), known as NEULARK, is evaluating Neuron23‘s experimental therapy, NEU-411, in up to 150 people with early-stage,…
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There are moments when a disease stops being only a medical story and becomes a public trust story. A prevention story. A question of whether the people who know enough to act will do so in time. I think Parkinson’s disease is having one of those moments now. For years,…
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Patient enrollment has started in a Phase 2a clinical trial evaluating Jotrol, an oral formulation of resveratrol developed by Jupiter Neurosciences as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease, the company has announced. The RESET trial (NCT07592767) is recruiting up to 30 patients at three sites in…
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A University of Minnesota Medical School team has received a $6 million grant to design mouse models for the study of genetic variants linked to Parkinson’s disease. “These models could help us better understand how Parkinson’s disease works and support testing of potential therapies in early stages of research,”…
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Biogen and Denali Therapeutics have ended their clinical development of BIIB122 for people with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease after the experimental therapy failed to slow disease progression in a Phase 2b trial. The decision follows results from the Phase 2b LUMA study (NCT05348785), which compared BIIB122 (also…
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A team of researchers in Germany has developed an immuno-infrared sensor (iRS) designed to detect misfolded alpha-synuclein, a protein linked to Parkinson’s disease, in body fluids including blood and the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. The researchers say the technology could one day support earlier diagnosis,…
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