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Promedior Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company developing novel therapeutics for the treatment of fibrosis, has announced that retrospective quantitative imaging data from the company’s Phase 1b clinical trial of the drug PRM-151 for treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), was presented in a poster at the 18th…

FibroGen Inc. will present the full data set from a clinical study of patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), treated for 48 weeks with the company’s investigational drug FG-3019, at the 18th International Colloquium on Lung and Airway Fibrosis (ICLAF) in progress this week at Mont Tremblant, Quebec…

Photo Caption: “The Process is the product” – Pluristem’s 3D expansion technology allows for the production of different PLX cell products. Photo credit: Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. Haifa, Israel based Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. a drug developer specializing in placenta-based cell therapy products, has announced that licensee partner United Therapeutics…

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) are not popular topics of media coverage and popular conversation in the way that cancer and heart disease are. Despite increasing numbers of people diagnosed with PH/PAH worldwide, pulmonary hypertension has been a historically neglected disease. Which is a bit puzzling, since…

Irving, Texas based Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has enrolled the first patient in a Phase 2 dose ranging study examining the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of bardoxolone methyl in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). PAH is a life-threatening disease involving endothelial dysfunction, vasoconstriction in small pulmonary arteries, aberrant…

Researchers in a major study based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, Massachusetts, have linked development of the deadly vascular disease pulmonary hypertension (PH) to a related family of molecules, and show that the disorder’s progression involves disparate molecular pathways that span multiple cell types. MicroRNAs…

Genomics development and commercialization specialist firm Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI) of La Jolla, CA, and Silver Spring, Maryland-based Lung Biotechnology Inc., a subsidiary of United Therapeutics Corporation, have entered into a multi-year research and development agreement to develop humanized pig organs using synthetic genomic advances. The…

The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) has announced updates to its Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension guidelines in the online publication of “Pharmacological Therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Adults: CHEST Guideline” (Chest. 2014;145(5):1055-1063. doi:10.1378/chest.13-1864) in the journal CHEST. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare form of pulmonary…

A small pilot study by a team of French researchers has established the long-term benefits of upfront triple combination therapy among patients with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) describes pulmonary arterial hypertension as abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs that makes…

Results released Monday, May 5th from Canada’s Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA) Patient and Caregiver Survey revealed that those in Canada diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension (PH) are experiencing serious financial, social, and physical burdens as a result of being diagnosed with disease. Chief among the difficulties experienced among the PH…