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KB103 Investigational Therapy Receives Clearance from RAC Committee

Krystal Biotech recently announced that its leading investigational therapy for epidermolysis bullosa, KB103, has received clearance from the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee. Krystal Biotech is a gene therapy company developing new therapeutics for dermatological diseases including epidermolysis bullosa. Its lead candidate KB103 is being studied as a potential treatment for dystrophic epidermolysis…

Krystal Biotech Receives $700K Equity-Based Award to Develop Gene Therapy for DEB

The gene therapy company Krystal Biotech has received a $700,000 equity-based award from the Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Partnership (EBRP) and the Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation (EBMRF) to continue developing a treatment for dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB). EBRP and EBMRF are nonprofit organizations dedicated to funding medical research in…

Austrian Researchers Develop New Formulation of Diacerein to Treat EBS

Diacerein, which is a commercially available medicine used to treat osteoarthritis, also may hold therapeutic potential to treat blistering in patients with epidermolysis bullosa simplex type Dowling-Meara (EBS-DM). Initially discovered by a team of researchers at the EB House Austria, University Clinic for Dermatology at the Paracelsus Medical…