Epivario Inc. has been awarded a grant of nearly $260,000 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to advance research on its proprietary small-molecule inhibitors designed to reduce alcohol craving responses and help people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) prevent relapse.
A radiation countermeasure study conducted by the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI) has shown that intravenous administration of Athersys' MultiStem (invimestrocel) provided benefit in an animal model of acute radiation syndrome (ARS).