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Japan's JCR Pharma receives marketing authorisation in Kuwait for Enzyme Replacement Therapy to treat Hunter Syndrome

Japan-based JCR Pharmaceuticals Co., a global specialty biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing

15 October, 2026 | Thursday | News
Roche inks $1.06 B deal with China's Rona Therapeutics for RNA-based metabolic therapies

Chinese startup Rona Therapeutics has granted Roche an exclusive worldwide license for Rona's investigational

14 October, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Singapore's NTU and Boehringer Ingelheim collaborate to explore new approaches for treating obesity

Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore and global biopharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelhe

13 October, 2026 | Tuesday | News

BioTech News

Ultrahuman and Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre partner to build Biological Age model

The Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre (ADPHC) has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ultra

13 October, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Singapore injects S$50 M into National Centre for Engineering Biology

The National Centre for Engineering Biology (NCEB), hosted at the National University of Singapore (NUS),

06 October, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development provides ¥2.8 B grant to United Immunity

United Immunity, a clinical stage biotechnology company, has raised a total of ¥2.2 billion in private fin

28 September, 2026 | Monday | News

MedTech News

PurMinds announces clinical validation collaboration with SpectroChip and Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital in Taiwan

PurMinds Enterprises, Inc. (formerly Pacific Software, Inc.) has announced the signing of a collaboration agre

15 October, 2026 | Thursday | News
Asieris Pharma partners with Theramex for global development of non-surgical treatment for cervical precancerous lesions in ANZ

Theramex, a London-headquartered specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to women and their health, and Chi

13 October, 2026 | Tuesday | News

BioServices News

New Sydney laboratory expands 360biolabs’ Australian network

360biolabs, a BioAgilytix company, has opened a new laboratory in Sydney, bringing its established bioanalytic

15 October, 2026 | Thursday | News
Korea's GCCL signs MoU with LabConnect to expand global clinical trial collaboration

GCCL, a South Korea-based leading global clinical trial central laboratory, has signed a Memorandum of Underst

13 October, 2026 | Tuesday | News

Inside Magazine

Neurology’s Disease-Modifying Moment

Neurology is moving from a history of high-risk failures to a period of unprecedented therapeutic experimentation. For decades, the complexity of the brain, limited understanding of disease biology and the formidable blood-brain barrier (BBB) made central nervous system (CNS) drug development one of pharma’s toughest challenges. That equation is now beginning to shift.

Advances in neurobiology, neuroimmunology, precision medicine and drug-delivery technologies are opening new routes to diseases once considered largely untreatable. Recent approvals have introduced disease-modifying and genetically targeted therapies, while the Phase III pipeline is testing approaches aimed at Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), Dravet syndrome and other neurological disorders.

Behind this momentum is a deeper change: developers are moving beyond managing symptoms towards targeting the biological mechanisms that drive disease. The question now is whether this scientific momentum can finally translate into durable clinical benefit—and make disease modification a repeatable reality in neurology.

 

 

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