ScienceAugust 25, 2026

tafamidis

tuh-FAM-ih-dis

Definition

A pharmacological compound used as a therapeutic drug to treat amyloidosis by stabilizing transthyretin proteins to prevent them from misfolding and clumping.

Etymology

This term is a modern pharmaceutical name constructed using established chemical naming conventions, where the suffix '-idis' is typically employed to denote a drug class or specific therapeutic agent.

In the news

Tafamidis is identified as the active ingredient in the FDA-approved drugs Vyndamax and Vyndaqel, which were developed based on Jeffery Kelly's research into preventing protein aggregation.

Scripps Research professor Jeffery Kelly elected to the European Academy of Engineering

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