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The Huntington Study Group (HSG), is the world’s first HD cooperative therapeutic research organization. Today, HSG is a world leader in facilitating high quality clinical research trials and studies that bring us closer to finding more effective treatments for HD and reducing the burden of HD for families affected by the disease.

HSG is an organization of compassionate professionals dedicated to finding treatments that make a difference, providing rigorous care initiatives, and improving the quality of life and outcomes for HD families. How? By bringing together families, medical professionals, clinical researchers, HD advocacy groups, and sponsors to raise awareness of HD, share knowledge and best practices, and develop innovative treatments.

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Scientists identify precisely how pridopidine works in models of Huntington’s disease

Published date: 12 June, 2021

Pridopidine is a drug developed to treat Huntington’s disease (HD) and now scientists have a clearer understanding of how it works in the body and brain. In a series of academic papers, researchers figured out that pridopidine is working by targeting a particular receptor protein called S1R. With this new understanding, the researchers believe pridopidine ... Read more
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Huntington's disease therapeutics conference 2021 – Day 3

Published date: 29 April, 2021

We are back for the last day of the virtual 2021 CHDI Therapeutics conference. This article summarises our live Twitter updates on the exciting science being presented, which you can find with the hashtag #HDTC2021. The final session of the conference will provide the latest news on more Huntington’s disease clinical programs. A new way ... Read more
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Huntington’s disease therapeutics conference 2021 – Day 1

Published date: 28 April, 2021

The CHDI Therapeutics Conference 2021 kicked off today. This article summarizes our live Twitter updates on the exciting science being presented, which you can continue to follow with the hashtag #HDTC2021. The morning of Day 1 focused on clinical trial updates, while the afternoon explored genetic modifiers of HD and how they might be harnessed ... Read more
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Huntington's disease therapeutics conference 2021 – Day 2

Published date: 28 April, 2021

We are back with Day 2 of the virtual 2021 CHDI Therapeutics conference. This article summarises our live Twitter updates on the exciting science being presented, which you can continue to follow with the hashtag #HDTC2021. The morning session focussed on promising HD therapeutics that are in preclinical development and the afternoon session covered different ... Read more
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Huntington’s disease clinical trial round up

Published date: 26 April, 2021

It seems like the HD community has been inundated with updates from different companies and clinical trials recently. The news is far from complete doom and gloom; although there have been some real disappointments from some of the frontrunner trials, there are also positive updates from many different companies and lots of reasons for us ... Read more
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Good news from uniQure: gene therapy trial on track, and promising data in animals

Published date: 15 April, 2021

Two recent press releases from uniQure provide welcome good news: the first ever HD gene therapy, known as AMT-130, has been administered via brain surgery to a small set of participants in an early safety trial. At the same time, uniQure has published findings in HD animal models that increase confidence in the drug’s ability ... Read more
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Disappointing Results from Wave’s PRECISION-HD1 and 2 Trials

Published date: 30 March, 2021

The Huntington’s Disease community faced more disappointing news this week as Wave Life Sciences shared that they will discontinue development of two ASOs they had been testing in people with HD. Designed to decrease harmful huntingtin protein while keeping the healthy form intact, these experimental therapies unfortunately did not have the expected huntingtin-lowering effect. Wave ... Read more
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Sad News from Roche and Ionis – ASO Trial Halted Early

Published date: 23 March, 2021

Very sad news was announced today as Roche and Ionis declared that the large ASO study they’re running in Huntington’s disease patients has been halted early. Importantly, no specific new safety concerns were raised so far, but nevertheless dosing of the study drug, tominersen, as well as the placebo, has been stopped prematurely. What does ... Read more
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Vaccines and HD

Published date: 25 February, 2021

Families around the world are being impacted by COVID-19, but hope is on the horizon in the form of revolutionary new vaccines which were developed in record time. How is the coronavirus impacting HD families, and should they be worried about any of the vaccines coming to market? Should HD patients get the vaccine? We’ll ... Read more
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GPR52: Exploring a new way to lower huntingtin

Published date: 11 February, 2021

Scientists have found new leads for how to reduce the levels of the Huntington’s disease (HD) protein by targeting a protein called GPR52. A team of researchers working in Shanghai, China developed small drug-like molecules which lower huntingtin protein levels in HD tissue culture models and in HD mouse models. Treatment with their molecules was ... Read more
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