High conversion rates to Parkinson's, dementia with Lewy bodies, or multiple system atroph ...

Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is an adult-onset, rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterised by the aggregation of α-synuclein in oligodendroglial cytoplasmatic inclusions.1 ...

Currently no disease-modifying or neuroprotective treatments exist for MSA, nor are there effective medications to treat the cerebellar ataxia in MSA-C or the parkinsonian features in MSA-P. Physical ...

Emrusolmin is expected to improve symptoms of MSA by targeting alpha synuclein oligomers. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to emrusolmin (TEV-56286) for the ...

Compared with placebo, ATH434 demonstrated a statistically significant 48% slowing of clinical progression (based on UMSARS score) at the 50mg dose at week 52. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

A team of researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi and the University of Denver has identified a promising small molecule that could help slow or halt the progression of serious brain diseases such as Parkinson ...

MELBOURNE, Australia and SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alterity Therapeutics (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE) (“Alterity” or “the Company”), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing ...

MELBOURNE, Australia and SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alterity Therapeutics (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE) (“Alterity” or “the Company”), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing ...

In 2020, Ashley Harms, Ph.D., and University of Alabama at Birmingham colleagues published an Acta Neuropathologica study that used a mouse model to show that the alpha-synuclein pathology from ...

Multiple system atrophy is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease, where insoluble inclusions of the protein alpha-synuclein appear in oligodendrocyte cells of the brain. The resulting ...

HONOLULU — A novel “moderate-affinity iron chaperone” known as ATH434 (Alterity Therapeutics) may slow disease progression in patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA), new research suggested. The ...

A new study by the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland, found that a significant proportion of Parkinson's disease diagnoses are later corrected. Up to one in six diagnoses ...