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MedCity News December 5, 2024
The startup’s first disease target is chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), which can be treated with a blockbuster Argenx drug. Nuvig aims to show its drug can offer a better way to treat this disease and other autoimmune conditions.
Standard treatment for many autoimmune diseases includes drugs that suppress the immune system. Even when this approach works (and it doesn’t work for everyone), chronic immunosuppression puts patients at risk of infections among other complications. Nuvig Therapeutics is developing a first-in-class drug that could offer an alternative treatment for autoimmune diseases and the startup now has $161 million to advance clinical development of its lead program.
Nuvig aims to treat autoimmune disease by tapping into a built-in mechanism of the body...
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