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PEARL Trial-PrEnAtal enzyme Replacement for Lysosomal storage diseases
University of California - San Francisco (UCSF) is excited to announce the rebranding of their phase 1 clinical trail of In Utero Enzyme Replacement Therapy as the PEARL Trial-PrEnAtan enzyme Rreplacement for Llysosomal storage diseases. "We have rebranded our...
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Summary of 2004 International Pompe Association Conference
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...
IPA Conference – October 30 – November 1, 2003
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...
Genzyme Begins Enrolling Patients in Pivotal Pompe Disease Study
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...
Genzyme General Begins Enrolling Patients in Pompe Disease Study
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...
Genzyme’s Pompe Program Update
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...
IPA/Genzyme News—September 24, 2002
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,...
Transgenic Enzyme Production to Cease
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...
IPA/Genzyme Meeting
Board members of the IPA, the International Pompe Association, met with key representatives of Genzyme in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 16-17, 2002. The IPA members in attendance were: Randall House, AMDA-US; Marylyn House, AMDA-US, Ria Broekgaarden, VSN-The...
Genzyme Press Release
Excerpt From Genzyme’s April 17, 2002 Press Release Pompe Update Genzyme is moving forward aggressively with its program to develop an effective therapy for Pompe disease. Genzyme has invested significant resources over the past four years pursuing the most promising...
Letter from Vice President of Genzyme
Following is a letter sent to the IPA by Jan van Heek, Executive Vice President of Genzyme, for release prior to the VSN Pompe Patient Conference which took place on March 9, 2002. in the Netherlands. Dear Friends, On Saturday, March 9th, 2002, I will be speaking at...
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