Prosensa to Receive $1.5m from Charley’s Fund for Skipping of Exon 52 in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patients

Leiden, The Netherlands, 1 December 2011 – Prosensa, the Dutch bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pany focus­ing on RNA mod­u­lat­ing ther­a­peu­tics for rare dis­eases with unmet med­ical needs, announced today that it has received financ­ing of $1.5m for three years from the char­i­ta­ble organ­i­sa­tion Charley’s Fund, to sup­port devel­op­ment of com­pounds for the skip­ping of exon 52 in patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). More… »

Prosensa Updates on Patent Position

Leiden, The Netherlands, 17 November 2011 – Prosensa, the Dutch com­pany focus­ing on RNA mod­u­lat­ing ther­a­peu­tics for rare dis­eases with unmet med­ical needs, has been granted two new patents for exon-skipping by the Japanese Patent Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and has con­firmed its strong posi­tion in Europe dur­ing an oppo­si­tion pro­ce­dure which was con­cluded yes­ter­day. More… »

Mucosis Announces New Scientific Advisory Board

Groningen, the Netherlands, November 15, 2011 / B3C newswire / – Dutch biotech­nol­ogy com­pany Mucosis B.V. today announced that it has appointed pro­fes­sors Jiri Mestecky, M.D., Ph.D.; Willem van Eden, M.D., Ph.D.; and Peter J. Openshaw, M.B., B.S., Ph.D., F.Med.Sci., to its newly formed Scientific Advisory Board. More… »

Prosensa named Most Innovative European Biotech SME

Leiden, The Netherlands, 8 November 2011 – Prosensa, the Dutch bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pany focus­ing on rare dis­eases with a high unmet med­ical need, has won EuropaBio’s Most Innovative European Biotech SME Award 2011, pre­sented at a cer­e­mony in Brussels ear­lier today. The award comes with prize money of €10,000 and two years’ mem­ber­ship of EuropaBio. More… »

Prosensa Awarded up to €5m Innovation Credit from Dutch Government for research in Myotonic Dystrophy

Leiden, The Netherlands, 25 October 2011 – Prosensa, the Dutch com­pany focus­ing on RNA mod­u­lat­ing ther­a­peu­tics for rare dis­eases with unmet med­ical needs, announced today that it has received an inno­va­tion credit of up to €5m from AgentschapNL, a sub­sidiary of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, to sup­port fur­ther devel­op­ment of a series of pre­clin­i­cal com­pounds for the treat­ment of Myotonic Dystrophy type 1 (DM1). More… »