Eli Lilly has acquired Prevail, a biotech focusing on gene therapies for neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson's, in a deal potentially worth more than $1 billion.
Axovant has said it plans to continue developing its Parkinson’s Disease gene therapy after reporting supportive data from a small cohort of patients from a phase 2 trial.
Bayer has announced it is fully acquiring US cell therapy biotech BlueRock Therapeutics, whose cell therapy pipeline includes a treatment for Parkinson’s disease.
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved an over-the-air software upgrade for Infinity implants manufactured by Abbott, giving devices used in Parkinson’s and essential tremor full-