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Cystic Fibrosis Weekly Update Contents: CF Foundation Awards $700K to Support Work into Treatments for B. cepacia Infections Help Us Improve Our Site! Enterprise’s ETX001 Targeting Chloride Channel Shows Promise for CF in Preclinical Studies I Keep Forgetting CF Is Invisible CF Foundation Awards $700K to Support Work into Treatments for B. cepacia Infections Jan 22, 2020 07:00 am | Marisa Wexler MS The Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Foundation awarded a nearly $700,000 contract to Calibr, the drug discovery and development arm of Scripps Research, to support projects aiming to identify compounds that could treat infections caused by Burkholderia cepacia complex. The contract will provide funding for two years, and is valued at $692,000, according to a press release from the […] The post CF Foundation Awards $700K to Support Work into Treatments for B. cepacia Infections appeared first on Cystic Fibrosis News Today. Read More Help Us Improve Our Site! Jan 21, 2020 02:13 pm | Matthew Lafleur We are always trying to provide a better, more relevant website to meet the needs of our readers. The best way to do that is to hear from people like you. We’ve partnered with Think Company, a research and design firm, to schedule one-one-one phone interviews with patients and caregivers starting the week of January […] The post Help Us Improve Our Site! appeared first on Cystic Fibrosis News Today. Read More Enterprise’s ETX001 Targeting Chloride Channel Shows Promise for CF in Preclinical Studies Jan 21, 2020 07:00 am | Marta Figueiredo Enterprise Therapeutics‘ experimental compound called ETX001 was able to increase airway fluid secretion and mucus clearance in preclinical models of cystic fibrosis (CF), a study reports. ETX001 is a potentiator of a chloride channel called TMEM16A. Because TMEM16A’s production and function are independent of CFTR — the protein that is deficient in CF patients — the […] The post Enterprise’s ETX001 Targeting Chloride Channel Shows Promise for CF in Preclinical Studies appeared first on Cystic Fibrosis News Today. Read More I Keep Forgetting CF Is Invisible Jan 20, 2020 03:00 pm | Wendy Caroline I often hear, “CF does not define me.” However, while cystic fibrosis (CF) does not define me, it is a part of me. It has helped shape who I am as a person. So, it does define me. It defines me in the same way that being a musician defines me or my love of […] The post I Keep Forgetting CF Is Invisible appeared first on Cystic Fibrosis News Today. Read More Recent News Reflecting on My Favorite Columns of 2019 CF Advocate Andy Lipman Offers Hope to Others With Warrior Project I Let CF Win When I Gave Up My Veterinarian Dream Two Pivotal Phase 3 Trials of Proteostasis’ CF Triple Combo Therapy to Open in 2020 I’m Taking a Break from Sharing My Story