Drug repurposing offers hope for SYNGAP1 patients
The SynGAP Research Fund 501(c)(3) has awarded a pair of grants to Dr. Clement Chow, a geneticist and Associate Professor ...
Tag: Drug Repurposing
TxGNN improves drug repurposing by predicting treatments for rare diseases with no approved therapies
Researchers have developed TxGNN, an AI-powered model that outperforms existing methods by predicting treatments for diseases lacking approved therapies, using ...
New AI tool revolutionizes drug discovery for rare diseases
There are more than 7,000 rare and undiagnosed diseases globally. Although each condition occurs in a small number of individuals, ...
Drug repurposing study finds lonafarnib effective against RSV
In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers screened ReFRAME (short for repurposing, focused rescue, and accelerated Medchem), ...
Common psychiatric medications can give some protection against COVID-19
A new meta-analysis shows that psychiatric medications can give some protection against COVID-19, with the common antidepressant fluvoxamine showing the ...
Viagra and Cialis may not be suitable candidates for treating dementia, NIH DREAM study shows
Results from the National Institutes of Health's Drug Repurposing for Effective Alzheimer's Medicines (DREAM) study show that sildenafil (Viagra) and ...
New study suggests metformin is associated with less severe COVID-19 across prediabetic individuals
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers illustrated that metformin was associated with decreased coronavirus disease 2019 ...
