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PaVe-GT: Collaborative NIH Effort Aimed at Creating a Gene Therapy Playbook, Making Rare Disease Treatments More Accessible

NCATS ∙ 11/30/2020 ∙ Rare Diseases

The Platform Vector Gene Therapy (PaVe-GT) initiative aims to make gene therapy development and clinical testing more streamlined and less expensive — and potentially more accessible to millions of people with rare diseases.

November 2020

PaVe-GT: Collaborative NIH Effort Aimed at Creating a Gene Therapy Playbook, Making Rare Disease Treatments More Accessible
NCATS ∙ 11/30/2020 ∙ Rare Diseases
Commonly Used Antibiotic Shows Promise for Combating Zika Infections
NCATS, NINDS ∙ 11/24/2020 ∙ Division of Preclinical Innovation
Hydroxychloroquine Does Not Benefit Adults Hospitalized with COVID-19
NCATS, NHLBI ∙ 11/09/2020 ∙ CTSA Program

October 2020

NCATS Team’s Rapid Test Finds Promising Therapies for Myositis
NCATS ∙ 10/22/2020 ∙ Rare Diseases
NIH Begins Large Clinical Trial to Test Immune Modulators for Treatment of COVID-19
NCATS, NIH ∙ 10/16/2020 ∙ CTSA Program
NCATS Translational Science Training Program Sets Young Scientists on Paths to Career Success
NCATS ∙ 10/13/2020 ∙ Division of Preclinical Innovation

September 2020

NIH Awards $35.5 Million to Use Tiny, Bioengineered Organ Models to Improve Clinical Trials’ Development and Design
NCATS ∙ 09/29/2020 ∙ Tissue Chip
NIH Expands Clinical Trials to Test Convalescent Plasma Against COVID-19
NCATS, NIH ∙ 09/22/2020 ∙ CTSA Program
NCATS, NRL Create Nanoparticle SARS-CoV-2 Model to Speed Drug Discovery for COVID-19
NCATS ∙ 09/18/2020 ∙ TRND
Announcement: Access to the COVID-19 Data Analytics Platform Now Open
NCATS ∙ 09/02/2020 ∙
Study Ties COVID-19-Related Syndrome in Kids to Altered Immune System
NIH ∙ 09/01/2020 ∙ GARD

August 2020

Rare Diseases Are Not Rare: Gallery of Creative Work Raises Awareness of Rare Diseases
NCATS, NIH ∙ 08/25/2020 ∙ Rare Diseases
NIH-Supported Scientists Demonstrate How Genetic Variations Cause Eczema
NCATS, NIAID ∙ 08/14/2020 ∙ CTSA Program

June 2020

NIH Launches Analytics Platform to Harness Nationwide COVID-19 Patient Data to Speed Treatments
NCATS, NIH ∙ 06/15/2020 ∙ CTSA Program, NCATS
New Imaging Method Tracks Brain’s Elusive Networks
NCATS, NIBIB ∙ 06/10/2020 ∙ NIH

May 2020

NIH-Supported Research Survey to Examine Impact of COVID-19 on Rare Diseases Community
NCATS, NIH ∙ 05/07/2020 ∙ RDCRN

April 2020

NIH Begins Study to Quantify Undetected Cases of Coronavirus Infection
NCATS, NIAID ∙ 04/10/2020 ∙ NCATS

March 2020

Study Finds Irregular Sleep Patterns Double the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Older Adults
NCATS, NHLBI ∙ 03/02/2020 ∙ CTSA Program
Blood Test Method May Predict Alzheimer’s Protein Deposits in Brain
NCATS, NIA, NINDS ∙ 03/02/2020 ∙ RDCRN
Media Advisory: To Improve Health on Earth, NIH-Funded Tissue Chips Push New Boundaries in Space
NCATS, NIBIB, NIH ∙ 03/02/2020 ∙ Tissue Chip

February 2020

Reprogramming Immune Cells to Fight Tumors
NCATS, NIH ∙ 02/26/2020 ∙ NCATS