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Exciting new research, partly funded by the U.K. Cystic Fibrosis Trust and the Robert Luff Foundation and announced at the Trust’s U.K. CF Conference last week, shows promising results in reconditioning poorly functioning donor lungs and reducing acute organ rejection in a trial on pigs, the Trust reports. A…

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated is a global biotechnology company whose corporate mission is to discover, develop and commercialize innovative medicines that can help people with serious diseases lead better lives. Vertex initiated its CF research program in 1998 as part of a collaboration with Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc. (CFFT),…

Researchers at Claremont, California-based biotechnology company Synedgen are developing targeted therapies that address complications of cystic fibrosis (CF) on pulmonary and GI surfaces for which only limited treatment options are currently available — an unmet need frequently leading to early mortality. CF is a genetic disease caused by mutations in…

Boulder, Colorado based Nivalis Therapeutics, Inc. a clinical stage pharmaceutical company focused on treating people with cystic fibrosis (CF), is reporting positive topline results from a Phase 1b clinical study evaluating its Cystic Fibrosis drug candidate N91115 — a novel stabilizer of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR)…

The International CF Modifier Consortium led by researchers from the University of North Carolina, the University of Toronto, Johns Hopkins University, Case Western University, and the University of Paris, along with some two dozen research institutions and departments in the United States, Canada, and France, are collaborating in the largest-ever…

Flemington, New Jersey based clinical stage biopharmaceutical company Arno Therapeutics, Inc. has announced data from a preclinical study demonstrating that its drug candidate AR-13, an analogue of Arno’s AR-12 infectious disease compound portfolio, shows promise as a potential new therapeutic option for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) who are…

Johns Hopkins University Hospital physician and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Vice President of Therapeutics Development Michael Boyle, M.D., testified on Friday, September 18th before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s on Health, urging Subcommittee members to support Bill H.R. 209, which would make a permanent the Ensuring Access to Clinical…

Cystic Fibrosis researcher Dr. Joshua R. Stokell, PhD, 36, of Charlotte, NC, passed away on June 8, 2015, due to complications associated with his own lifelong battle with Cystic Fibrosis (CF). A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Dr. Stokell had studied Cystic Fibrosis after earning his…

Future Science Group (FSG), a progressive publisher focused on breakthrough medical, biotechnological, and scientific research, has announced publication of a special issue in Future Science OA, covering the rapidly evolving field of protein misfolding diseases — a category that includes Cystic Fibrosis, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s…

Dr. Basil Hubbard, an assistant professor of pharmacology in the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry envisions a new world of therapeutic treatments for millions of patients that could be just over the horizon — a future in which genetic diseases like muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis, and…