SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - October 26, 2009 - PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (PTC) today announced it is expanding the development of ataluren, an investigational new drug, to a third indication with the initiation of a Phase 2a clinical trial in nonsense mutation hemophilia A (nmHA) and hemophilia B (nmHB). Hemophilia is a rare and debilitating gene...

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J., September 2, 2009 – PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (PTC) today announced an exclusive research collaboration and licensing agreement with Roche for the development of orally bioavailable small molecules utilizing PTC's technology called Gene Expression Modulation by Small-molecules (GEMS™). The collaboration focuses initi...

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ – August 10, 2009 – PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (PTC) today announced that it has reached a major research milestone in its collaboration with Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) receiving a $2 million payment in connection with the designation of a development candidate for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) inf...

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - June 15, 2009 - PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (PTC) today announced the receipt of two government grants to support clinical development programs in rare disorders. The U.S. Department of Defense Neurofibromatosis Research Program has awarded an $822,345 grant to support a new open-label Phase 2 clinical trial of PTC's pro...

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ AND NEW YORK, NY - May 12, 2009 - PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (PTC) and the Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Foundation today announced the expansion of their research collaboration in which the SMA Foundation will provide up to $8.5 million in funding to PTC. This is the second continuation of the collaboration to fund a ser...