The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has put optogenetics, the science of using light to control precisely selected nerve cells, squarely in the global spotlight. For many, the award is more than a ceremonial victory lap for academic neuroscience:…
Parabilis Medicines, Inc. (NASDAQ: PBLS) entered public markets with the kind of financial runway, strategic endorsement and clinical ambition that tends to make biotech investors sit up straighter in their Aeron chairs. The Cambridge-based clinical-stage company is pursuing a deceptively simple proposition: use…
Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: EPRX; TSX: EPRX) has added a new layer of clinical durability to its EoE investment case, and Wall Street’s bullish coverage is becoming harder to overlook. The company’s latest 52-week EP-104GI data, including 64% clinical remission among evaluable higher-dose…
Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: EPRX; TSX: EPRX) has added a potentially important chapter to its eosinophilic esophagitis, or EoE, story: a single administration of its investigational localized therapy, EP-104GI, continued to show clinical-remission signals at 52 weeks in the highest-dose cohorts of the…
AbbVie Inc. (NYSE: ABBV) has secured (Sept. 28) FDA approval for JUVMO™ (tavapadon), a new once-daily Parkinson’s therapy, adding an important fresh option to a market long defined by the delicate art of managing motor symptoms, “OFF” time, dyskinesia and medication burden. For Serina…
The biotech market has long rewarded breakthrough efficacy. Increasingly, it is also rewarding something patients and physicians understand with unusual clarity: less treatment burden. Fresh clinical updates from Kodiak Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: KOD), Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: EPRX), and Serina Therapeutics Inc. (NYSE…
SER-252 enters Cohort 2 with blinded early observations that support the central premise: sustained delivery of a proven Parkinson’s medicine may be far more valuable when it asks less of patients and caregivers.
In biotechnology, there are moonshots, and then there are…
The market’s most compelling bullish narratives rarely arrive wearing the same uniform. This week, they span a CEO buying millions of dollars of his own stock, an OLED display running at a downright impolite 720Hz, a telehealth company pursuing large institutional accounts,…
Serina Therapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American: SER) is approaching a consequential clinical milestone with SER-252, its long-acting POZ-apomorphine candidate for advanced Parkinson’s disease, now advancing into Cohort 2 of a registrational Phase 1b study. For many, the appeal is not simply that Serina is pursuing…
Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: EPRX; TSX: EPRX) has moved up to the Nasdaq Global Select Market just as its lead clinical program approaches a pivotal Phase 2b interim data event. For many, the timing is rather tidy: the company is pairing greater market…
