EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KineMed, Inc., Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ISIS), and CHDI Foundation, Inc., announced today that they are collaborating to utilize KineMed’s translational biomarker platform with Isis’ antisense therapeutic program for Huntington’s disease (HD). This collaboration, which builds on an earlier alliance between CHDI and KineMed to develop companion biomarkers of therapeutic response in HD, will provide Isis access to novel biomarkers for use in the development of an antisense drug to treat HD. “A pharmacodynamic biomarker could be an important contribution to our clinical development efforts, and we look forward to working with KineMed and CHDI to evaluate KineMed’s biomarker platform in our Huntington’s disease program,” said Frank Bennett, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of Research at Isis.
