Neurocrine Biosciences announced positive results from the company’s Phase III KINECT-HD study evaluating the efficacy of valbenazine in the treatment of chorea associated with Huntington’s Disease (HD).
Shares of Voyager Therapeutics were down in trading after the company announced a clinical hold was placed on an experimental gene therapy treatment for Huntington’s disease before heading into the clinic.
Researchers with the Salk Institute developed a new type of gene editing called SATI that may provide the option of editing numerous gene mutation diseases such as Huntington’s disease and the rare premature aging syndrome, progeria.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries posted a slightly smaller than expected drop in first-quarter 2019 profit and forecast a sharp rise in 2020 revenue from the company’s new migraine drug Ajovy.
