Denali Therapeutics – launched in May 2015 by three former Genentech researchers – went public, raising $250 million with shares priced at $18.

Cytokinetics Inc. will stop developing one of its treatments for ALS – which afflicts Stephen Hawking – after the drug failed in a late-stage trial, sending the company’s shares tumbling about 35 percent.

Wave Life Sciences officially opened a new state-of-the art manufacturing facility to support advancement of the company’s stereopure nucleic acid platform.

BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics said the first patients have been enrolled in a late-stage trial of its treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at Massachusetts General Hospital and UC Irvine Medical Center in California.

Artificial intelligence robots are turbo-charging the race to find new drugs for the crippling nerve disorder ALS, or motor neurone disease.

Radicava (edaravone), an intravenous therapy indicated for all adult patients diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, has been launched in the U.S. by Mitsubishi Tanabe.

Biogen Inc. plans to spin off its hemophilia drug business as a publicly traded company, leaving the drugmaker to focus on developing drugs for neurodegenerative diseases.