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Gladstone Institutes Initiates Research Collaboration With Eli Lilly for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Study will use innovative technology to focus on neurodegenerative diseases
SAN FRANCISCO, December 7, 2017 (Newswire.com) – The Gladstone Institutes announced today a new research collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company focused on neurodegenerative diseases. This multi-year, milestone-driven project will be based on a combination of innovative technologies developed at Gladstone by Steve Finkbeiner, M.D., Ph.D. His laboratory will work closely with Lilly during this collaboration.
“This collaboration has high potential to open new avenues towards effective therapies for neurodegenerative diseases,” said Gladstone President R. Sanders Williams, M.D. “Both organizations are committed to meeting this major unmet need.”
Key to the project is a robotic microscope system developed in Finkbeiner’s laboratory with funds from Gladstone, the Taube/Koret Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, and the ALS Association. This fully automated platform allows scientists to track thousands of individual cells for days or weeks at a time, and follow discrete cellular functions.
When coupled with neurons generated from induced pluripotent stem cells collected from patients with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and ALS, this microscope becomes a powerful tool to study the cells and their responses to disease and treatments. [Read more…]
Fortuna Fix Announces Series B Financing, Adding Amgen Ventures and Macnguyen Family Office as Shareholders
London, UK and Montreal, Canada, November 8, 2017 (Newswire) –Fortuna Fix (“Fortuna”), a private, clinical-stage Regenerative Medicine company is aiming to be the first to bring to the clinic a patient’s own neural stem cells (autologous) produced by direct reprogramming (“drNPCs”
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Genetically Modified Muscle Progenitor Cells with Stem Cell Medicine Ltd.
In the world of stem cells, there are a number of well-recognized market participants that receive a great deal of attention from the stem cell community.
At the same time, there are brilliant companies that quietly operate under the radar screen, building themselves up one intelligent and methodical step at a time. [Read more…]
Breakthrough Regenerative Therapeutics Company Establishes Scientific Advisory Board
Montreal, Canada, May 4, 2017 – Fortuna Fix Inc., (“Fortuna”), a private, clinical-stage biotech company is aiming to be the first to eliminate the need for embryonic and fetal stem cells by using direct reprogramming of autologous cells to treat neurodegenerative diseases. Fortuna announced today the launch of its Scientific Advisory Board (“SAB”) with Professor Michael Fehlings, MD, PhD, Father Kevin FitzGerald, S.J., PhD, COL (R) Dallas Hack, MD, MPH, and Professor James Giordano, PhD. [Read more…]
