May 13, 2005 | NEWS
May 11th 2005 IPA Conference Pompe’s disease Nantes, France. “Emerging therapies for Pompe disease” Dr. Ans van der Ploeg, Erasmus MC Rotterdam the Netherlands, talked about the natural course in late onset Pompe disease. She informed the audience about the outcome...
Apr 26, 2005 | NEWS
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Genzyme Corp. (Nasdaq: GENZ) announced today that it has completed a planned analysis of interim data from its pivotal clinical trial of Myozyme® (alglucosidase alfa), which is being studied for the treatment of Pompe disease. The interim analysis was...
Dec 21, 2004 | NEWS
CAMBRIDGE, MA—Genzyme Corp. (Nasdaq: GENZ) announced today that the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has accepted its marketing authorization application for Myozyme® (alglucosidase alfa), an investigational enzyme replacement therapy for Pompe disease. If approved,...
Oct 12, 2004 | NEWS
On 9th and 10th October, the AGSD (UK) held its annual patient conference. This year we were more ambitious than usual in that the Pompe Workshop extended into a second day. Families and speakers arrived on the Friday night and we held an informal conference dinner on...
Nov 3, 2003 | NEWS
Medical experts and patients are invited to attend the International Pompe Conference 2003. The goal of the conference is to bring together scientific expertise and patients’ experience. On the way towards a therapy for Pompe’s Disease there were and are many examples...
May 29, 2003 | NEWS
Genzyme General (Nasdaq: GENZ), a division of Genzyme Corp., announced today that it has treated the first patient in a pivotal clinical trial evaluating the use of its MyozymeTM recombinant human acid alpha-glucosidase enzyme (rhGAA) as a potential treatment for...
Mar 20, 2003 | NEWS
CAMBRIDGE, Mass – Genzyme General (Nasdaq: GENZ), a division of Genzyme Corp., announced today that it has begun enrolment in a clinical trial evaluating the use of its Myozyme™ recombinant human acid alpha -Glucosidase enzyme as a potential treatment for Pompe...
Dec 2, 2002 | NEWS
An update by Genzyme regarding treatment for Pompe disease. Q: What is the status of the Pompe program? Genzyme has made strong progress within its Pompe disease program since its decision earlier this year to move forward with an internally developed product...
Oct 2, 2002 | NEWS
IBaarn, October 2nd 2002 Dear IPA members, Herewith I would like to inform you about the IPA/Genzyme telephone conference of September 24 2002. We discussed issues concerning the production, the transition, new trials and the meeting with the Erasmus University, VSN,...
Jul 4, 2002 | NEWS
In July 2002, Genzyme began the transition of the nine transgenic (rabbit derived enzyme) patients to the CHO derived product. Three of the nine patients (infantile patients in the Netherlands) will remain on the transgenic enzyme until April 2003, when supply will be...