Target RWE, announced its liver disease registry TARGET-LD has exceeded 400,000 enrolled patients – significantly expanding the breadth and depth of real-world data for liver disease research. https://lnkd.in/e9jpAK8U
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June 13th marked the Global Fatty Liver Day, highlighting the severe impact of fatty liver disease, which affects 115 million people worldwide. Projected to affect 357 million by 2030, fatty liver disease often goes undiagnosed due to subtle symptoms. It poses major risks for obesity (70% of patients), type 2 diabetes (up to 75%), and hyperlipidemia (20-80%). Left unchecked, it can lead to cirrhosis, liver cancer, and the need for liver transplants. Known as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and its severe form MASH (metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis), this condition is life-threatening if not diagnosed early. Often called a 'silent disease,' it shows no specific symptoms in early stages, causing diagnostic delays. gMendel®’s technology could diagnose MASLD or MASH, enabling earlier intervention, reducing patient suffering, and helping health systems save substantial funds that can be allocated elsewhere. #NASH #genetics #genomics #screening #diagnostics #rarediseases #geneticdisorders #healthcare #innovation #healthtech #AI #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #companiondiagnostics #precisionmedicine #VC #venturecapital Novo Nordisk Novo Nordisk Foundation Fatty Liver Foundation Fatty Liver Alliance
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Kudos to #GLYC or actually listening to The Voice of Sickle Cell Disease Patients (https://lnkd.in/eiCP66yf), for reading the unprecedented 2020 report drafted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on Addressing Sickle Cell Disease: A Strategic Plan and Blueprint for Action (https://lnkd.in/eR4ktumW) and for recognizing that the ‘point of care’ for a vaso-occlusive pain crisis is at home… where > 90% of patients already self-manage this potentially deadly manifestation of SCD. For more on this unmet need, visit https://lnkd.in/euqEpcQ4
GlycoMimetics Announces Positive Initial Safety and Pharmacokinetic Results from Phase 1a Healthy Volunteer Study of GMI-1687 | GlycoMimetics, Inc.
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Please find attached our new article on G3 as an evolving therapeutic target in advanced liver disease
Galectin-3: therapeutic targeting in liver disease
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Today, on World Kidney Day, we aim to raise awareness about Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), impacting over 850 million people globally and leading to more than 3.1 million deaths in 2019. Over the last three decades, CDK treatment efforts have centered on preparing for and delivering kidney replacement therapies. However, recent therapeutic breakthroughs offer the opportunity to prevent or delay disease progression and mitigate complications such as cardiovascular disease and kidney failure, ultimately improving patient outcomes. At Calluna Pharma we are developing first-in-class therapies designed to defeat chronic inflammation and fibrosis at the source. 🚀 At the forefront of our portfolio is CAL101, a monoclonal antibody that neutralizes the bioactivity of S100A4, a DAMP protein implicated in serious and life-threatening diseases such as chronic kidney disease, severe (steroid insensitive) asthma, and pulmonary fibrosis. In chronically diseased tissues, S100A4’s inappropriate upregulation switches self-limiting tissue repair responses into chronic activation of inflammatory signaling pathways and sustained fibrogenesis. With CAL101, we aim to shift the paradigm, offering hope to patients grappling with serious and potentially life-threatening diseases such as chronic kidney disease. If you'd like to learn more about our work and therapeutic pipeline, visit our website: https://lnkd.in/e37y2VKy #WorldKidneyDay2024 #Immunology #PrecisionMedicine #ChronicKidneyDisease #CKD
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Is ELF implementation cost-effective or does it vary with different countries?
JUST OUT: "Implementation of a liver health check in people with type 2 diabetes" https://lnkd.in/g5zPAPf7 "This Viewpoint argues that augmenting the existing risk stratification strategy with an additional liver health check provides the opportunity to detect advanced liver fibrosis, thereby opening a window for early interventions to prevent end-stage liver disease and its complications, including hepatocellular carcinoma." ...in line with the global MASLD/MASH action priorities: https://lnkd.in/eGvjS_Ba Emmanuel Tsochatzis, Maja Thiele, Marco Arrese, Zobair Younossi, Vincent Wong, Jörn M. Schattenberg, CYRIELLE CAUSSY, Laurent Castera, Hannes Hagström, Maru/Mary Rinella, Luca Valenti, Mazen Noureddin, MD, MHSc Philip Newsome, Alina Allen and so many more...! EASL | The Home of Hepatology American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
Implementation of a liver health check in people with type 2 diabetes
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Liver disease continued to make headlines this past year, with the renaming of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) leading the charge. Now known as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), the rename has been decades in the making, as scientists and clinicians agreed than the previous name "trivialised the disease and was scientifically inaccurate". They go further: liver disease is incredibly complex, as are the patients and how they present. The old name did a disservice to this complexity and "was not really reflecting the underlying pathology" of the disease. This homogenisation has affected our understanding of liver and, in turn, impacted therapy development. It is hoped that the new name will help break this pattern; marking a major shift in our understanding of the complex drivers of disease and, ultimately, leading to a new era of liver disease therapies. Read the full article in STAT ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e74pcyTS #TeamOchre #biotech #genomics #liverdisease
Renamed, common liver diseases might get fairer shake at treatment, researchers hope
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Gene&Cell Therapy >> Autoimmune patients in CAR-T study see striking improvements across lupus and other diseases: SAN DIEGO — All of the first 15 autoimmune disease patients who received CAR-T therapy at a German hospital saw the debilitating symptoms of their diseases, including lupus and myositis, substantially improve or go away entirely, according to new research results shared Saturday. In 2021, a team of researchers from the University Hospital Erlangen began the first study of CAR-T therapy in patients with autoimmune diseases, making waves across the field when they announced that the first five patients with lupus all went into remission. Fabian Müller That number has now increased to eight lupus patients whose disease cleared, study investigator Fabian Müller reported at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting. Müller shared during his presentation a photo of a patient with lupus who had rashes associated with the disease all over their back. But after treatment, their skin was completely cleared. “The results were very impressive,” Larry Kwak of City of Hope’s cancer center, who was not involved in the research, told Endpoints News following the presentation. The university hospital also gave a single infusion of CAR-T cells to people with other autoimmune disorders, including idiopathic inflammatory myositis, where the muscles become inflamed, and systemic sclerosis, which causes the body to produce too much collagen. All three patients with myositis also went into remission after three months. And of the four sclerosis patients, the three that have been on the study for over three months also have seen the activity of their disease go down substantially. While the patients had to receive chemotherapy to clear space for the engineered cells, after the CAR-T treatment all 15 patients were able to stop taking the immunosuppressive drugs that are meant to keep their diseases at bay. The fact that all 15 patients have responded to CAR-T treatment and have not had their disease return is notable, since in blood cancers where similar cell therapies are currently approved, more than half of patients may relapse or not respond. Notably, the patients also had milder side effects than those who’ve received CAR-T therapy for cancer. Eleven patients experienced low-grade cytokine release syndrome, an immune response to the therapy, and one patient experienced grade 1 neurotoxicity related to immunotherapy treatment in the form of vertigo. The immune cells in autoimmune disease patients treated with CAR-T therapy appear to behave differently from those with cancer, and more research needs to be done to understand how the therapy works, Müller said. Patient number one A surge of advancements in oncology and immunology is opening up new pathways in the field, as medical researchers look for new ways to… #lucidquest #genetherapy #celltherapy
Autoimmune patients in CAR-T study see striking improvements across lupus and other diseases
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A third (33.3%) of autoimmune liver disease cases recur following a liver transplant, confirmed a new study presented at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Liver Meeting, with a median time to recurrence of 2.4 years. The study also showed that several factors are associated with lower recurrence-free survival: younger age (below 42 years) at the time of transplant, prolonged use of mycophenolate mofetil, higher levels of immunoglobulin G (IgG) before the transplant, and initial immunosuppression with basiliximab. Read more: https://brnw.ch/21wElKP #LiverLovers #TheLiverMeeting #TLM23
One-Third of Autoimmune Liver Disease Recurs After Liver Transplant - Rare Disease Advisor
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