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Follow on Google News | Clinical Repurposing Trials for COVID-19 and Cerebral Palsy Underway in ChicagoTrials at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Demonstrate Chicago's Continued Biomedical Strength
Cures Within Reach and its funding partner the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust also recently approved funding for two COVID-19 clinical trials in Chicagoland, one based at Northwestern University looking to reduce symptom progression in newly diagnosed patients using fluvoxamine, and the other at the University of Chicago focusing on health disparities: Cures Within Reach, a leading global nonprofit focused on improving patient quality and length of life by leveraging the speed, safety and cost-effectiveness of medical repurposing research, organized CureAccelerator Live!, where four finalists from research institutions across the Chicago area pitched their clinical repurposing projects, and attendees helped to select the winner of a $50,000 research grant. Dr. Lieber's winning project, "Repurposing a blood cancer treatment to treat muscle contractures in cerebral palsy patients," may lead to a new paradigm for nonsurgical treatment of muscle contracture by "biologically enabling" muscles with a cancer treatment, which is available as a generic. "Congratulations to Richard Lieber, PhD of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab for his exemplary approach to putting innovation into practice and winning CureAccelerator Live!," said Karie Thomson, Searle Consultant to the Chicago Community Trust. "Cures Within Reach is a crucial partner in fostering innovation here in Chicago. Because of their work, absolutely vital breakthroughs can happen. There is no more important example of this than the upcoming clinical trials of COVID-19 treatments at Northwestern and the University of Chicago. Supporting research talent here makes such rapid responses possible." "The randomized trial we will launch with the support of Cures Within Reach is urgently needed to understand whether vitamin D can reduce the risk and severity of COVID-19," said David Meltzer, MD, PhD, chief of hospital medicine at University of Chicago Medicine and lead researcher of the COVID-19 trial funded by Cures Within Reach. "Their rapid support of this project and thoughtful partnership has already been invaluable in bringing us closer to the answers we need." "We are thrilled to fund these three Chicago-based clinical repurposing trials, in partnership with the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust," said Barbara Goodman, Cures Within Reach's President & CEO. "Together, these demonstrate our region's capabilities to impact patients with the speed and cost-effectiveness that repurposing provides, both during the COVID-19 pandemic and for families impacted by cerebral palsy – who are also in crisis-mode looking for treatments to unsolved diseases." In addition to Dr. Lieber's project, the other finalists included:
In addition to the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust, support comes from other members of Cures Within Reach's Chicago Repurposing Community, including Brand Institute, Fujifilm Pharmaceuticals, Golan Christie Taglia LLP, Horizon Therapeutics, Judy Hirsch Foundation, PhRMA, Recordati Rare Diseases, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, TerSera Therapeutics and the Walder Foundation. About Cures Within Reach (http://www.cureswithinreach.org/ Cures Within Reach (CWR) is a US-based philanthropic leader that improves patient quality and length of life by leveraging the speed, safety and cost-effectiveness of medical repurposing research, driving more treatments to more patients more quickly. CWR catalyzes research to facilitate and validate repurposing opportunities that create clinical impact. Through repurposing, CWR drives both market impact and health savings to patients and patient groups, from academia/researchers, with payers and the healthcare industry and with support from the government, philanthropy and others. CWR currently has a global portfolio of 20 repurposing research projects at 17 institutions in 15 diseases. Visit cureswithinreach.org (http://www.cureswithinreach.org/) End
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