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Vienna to Host RARE2019 Meeting on Rare Diseases

About 100 scientists, researchers, pharmaceutical executives, and others will converge on Austria’s capital city early next month for the 2nd International Congress on Advanced Treatments in Rare Diseases. The March 4-5 meeting, to take place at the Hilton Am Stadtpark Vienna, features 27 speakers on a variety of disorders ranging…

Phase 1 Trial in Healthy Volunteers Supports Continued Development of ATN-249 for HAE

Attune Pharmaceuticals’ ATN-249, an investigational kallikrein inhibitor for the prevention of swelling attacks in hereditary angioedema (HAE) patients, was found generally safe and well-tolerated in a Phase 1 clinical trial with healthy volunteers, the company announced. Findings from this first-in-human trial (ACTRN12618000430235) were also presented during the recent Western Society…

Simple Diagnostic Test for Hereditary Angioedema Detects Mutations Missed by Current Methods

Researchers have developed a more cost-effective supporting diagnostic test for hereditary angioedema (HAE) to detect genetic changes that are otherwise missed by current standard methods. The study, “Gene mapping strategy for Alu elements rearrangements: Detection of new large deletions in the SERPING1 gene causing hereditary angioedema in Brazilian…