Tag: kidney disease

DENVER, July 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Medical Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: ICU), a commercial-stage healthcare company focused on transforming treatments for critically ill patients facing organ failure and potential loss of life, announced today that it has received confirmation from The Nasdaq Stock Market that the Company has evidenced compliance with the minimum $2.5 million stockholders’ equity requirement and all other applicable criteria for continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market. Accordingly, the previously disclosed listing matter has been closed.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., July 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ProKidney Corp. (Nasdaq: PROK) (“ProKidney” or the “Company"), a leading late clinical-stage cellular therapeutics company focused on chronic kidney disease (CKD), today announced the completion of the domestication process to change the jurisdiction of incorporation of the Company from the Cayman Islands to Delaware. The domestication was approved by shareholders of the Company at its Annual General Meeting held on May 29, 2025. Effective as of July 1, 2025, each (i) Class A ordinary share automatically converted into one share of Class A common stock of ProKidney Corp., a Delaware corporation and (ii) each Class B ordinary share automatically converted into one share of Class B common stock of ProKidney. ProKidney common stock will begin trading on July 2, 2025, and the Company's trading symbol on the Nasdaq Stock Market will remain unchanged as "PROK." The Company’s CUSIP number relating to its Class A common stock changed to 74291D 104. The Company does not anticipate any impact to day-to-day business operations as a result of the domestication.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Biogen Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB) – announced the initiation of dosing in the global clinical study, PROMINENT. The Phase 3 study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of the investigational drug felzartamab compared to tacrolimus in adults diagnosed with primary membranous nephropathy (PMN). PROMINENT is designed to enroll approximately 180 adults with PMN and expected to readout in 2029. PMN is a severe antibody-mediated disease of the kidney that is a leading cause of nephrotic syndrome and carries a significant risk of kidney failure.

Basel, June 25, 2025 – Novartis today announced that it has successfully completed its acquisition of Regulus Therapeutics Inc. (“Regulus”). With the completion of the acquisition, shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Shares”), of Regulus, have ceased trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC and Regulus is now an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Novartis.

Bagsværd, Denmark, 23 June 2025 – Novo Nordisk today announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion for an update of the Ozempic^® (once-weekly semaglutide) label to reflect the positive data from the STRIDE peripheral artery disease (PAD) functional outcomes trial.

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