Fannin Partners LLC has been awarded a $300,000 phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Eye Institute (NEI) to advance a first-in-class, non-VEGF-targeted therapeutic for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in patients not responding to anti-VEGF therapies.
Pramana Pharmaceuticals Inc. has been awarded $1 million from the Alzheimer’s Association to support IND-enabling development of PRM-914, the company’s once-daily oral small-molecule therapeutic for Alzheimer’s disease. The funding will support final toxicology and translational studies required to advance PRM-914 into first-in-human evaluation.
Oniria Therapeutics SL, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) and Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ) have partnered to advance ONR-001 for the treatment of colorectal cancer and to prepare it for clinical trials.
