New and updated clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference, including: Acumen, Alnylam, Athira, Biovie, Coya, Nkgen, Prothena, Taurx.

Sangamo Therapeutics Inc. has signed an evaluation and option agreement with Prevail Therapeutics Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly & Co., through which Prevail has been granted rights to evaluate certain proprietary adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsids developed by Sangamo and may exercise certain options to license these capsids for multiple undisclosed neurological targets.

Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed nitrogenous heterocyclic compounds described as as receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 1 (RIPK1; RIP-1) inhibitors.

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. has filed an application in New Zealand for clearance to initiate a phase I/II trial of ARO-DUX4, the company’s investigational RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutic being developed as a potential treatment for patients with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD).

Enveric Biosciences Inc. has announced results from pharmacokinetic animal studies of the...

Novartis AG just added muscle to its siRNA development effort by buying Dtx Pharma Inc. in an M&A deal that could total $1 billion. Novartis is getting a preclinical asset, DTx-1252, which just received the U.S. FDA’s orphan drug designation on June 8. Dtx is developing the siRNA candidate for treating the neuromuscular disease Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A (CMT1A). Basel, Switzerland-based Novartis will pay Dtx $500 million up front and make payments of up to $500 million in milestones completions.