Skyhawk Therapeutics shared results for SKY-0515, a drug designed to lower huntingtin. The drug appeared generally safe, with ...
5 min read |The Huntington’s disease community’s unprecedented mobilization helped secure a high-priority FDA meeting to discuss the path forward for AMT-130.
6 min read | Most people with HD report sleep problems, & new research suggests sleep quality is linked to many aspects of living with the disease. Wearables tracked people with HD for a year & ...
The HDBuzz Trial Tracker will continue to be updated as new trials enter the clinical space, existing trials change, and studies reach completion. Where relevant, we’ll link from the Tracker to ...
A recent article in the scientific journal, Nature describes “A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster (shingles) vaccination on dementia”. This study makes similar conclusions to other ...
As of January 1, HDBuzz is officially out on its own! Cue your celebratory party poppers as we enter this new chapter with an excited (and nervous!) smile. After lots of preparation, planning, and ...
This week, we heard an update from Roche about their huntingtin-lowering therapy, tominersen, currently being tested in the GENERATION HD2 trial. An independent data monitoring committee (iDMC) that ...
Last month, we relayed positive news from uniQure’s trial testing AMT-130, a gene therapy delivered via brain surgery to lower huntingtin (HTT). Data released by uniQure in June suggested AMT-130 was ...
A group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, has recently carried out an investigation to explore whether using a type of talking therapy, called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ...
UniQure has announced positive top-line results from its Phase I/II trial of AMT-130, a one-time gene therapy being tested in people with Huntington’s disease (HD). Topline data is a summary of the ...
On May 5th, PTC Therapeutics released results from their ongoing Phase 2 PIVOT-HD clinical trial for PTC-518, now called votoplam. Excitingly, they announced that this trial met its primary endpoint – ...
Huntingtin lowering has gained lots of attention in HD research, and for good reason. It was the first potential treatment designed to directly target the cause of HD – the huntingtin protein. But ...