Cardiology

Lomecel-B is being evaluated in the phase 2 ELPISII study in children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

Genetics is the future of heart failure and cardiomyopathy treatment, Judge told CGTLive in an interview.

Verve Therapeutics is currently conducting a clinical trial in New Zealand and expects to be able to open trials in the UK and US later in 2022.

Safety and efficacy data suggest this to be a feasible and clinically meaningful treatment for a patient population with high disease burden.

The 3 patients in cohort 1 have exhibited clinically meaningful improvements and no safety concerns. Follow-up for the 5 patients in cohort 2 is ongoing.

Matt Killeen, PhD, chief scientific officer at Renovacor, shares updates on the company's lead candidate, REN-001, an adeno-associated viral vector serotype 9-based gene therapy for the treatment of BAG3-associated dilated cardiomyopathy.

An interim analysis has met prespecified safety and efficacy checkpoints.

Data presented at SCAI 2020 examining a novel cell therapy suggests it could help reduce angina in patients with non-obstructive coronary artery disease.

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are lymphocytes genetically engineered to recognize and bind to specific proteins on cancer cells. Studies are currently underway for applications in other fields.

New findings from ESCaPE-MD show CD34+ cell therapy significantly benefitted patients with coronary microvascular dysfunction over 6 months.

Despite an embrace of greater patient populations by the FDA, cardiovascular research into stem cell therapy has been slow and burdened.

As safety and efficacy programs advance, clinicians consider the investigative therapy's potential in cardiology.

Renova Therapeutics is planning a 536-patient phase 3 trial, FLOURISH, to begin in early 2018.

It wasn't long ago that researchers first identified a piece of DNA that regulates cholesterol. This gene has been recently developed into a cholesterol-lowering agent and it's time to address where we go from here.