Novo Nordisk A/S presented a mixed bag of R&D results for its cardiometabolic assets in the first half of 2024 as it axed three drug candidates but advanced one to a late-stage study. In the search for greener pastures beyond a crowding obesity market, Novo announced Aug. 7 that it advanced ziltivekimab into a phase III study to assess the subcutaneous therapy’s cardiovascular outcomes in acute myocardial infarction patients.
Marea Therapeutics came out of stealth mode on June 18, after raising a combined $190 million through its series A and B financings. The series A round was led by Third Rock Ventures, and the series B round was led by Sofinnova Investments and co-led by Forbion, Perceptive Xontogeny Venture Fund and Venbio.
E-Therapeutics plc has offered a pipeline update, following the nomination of novel target genes, which have yielded promising results in preclinical studies.
Novo Nordisk A/S and Valo Health Inc. have entered into an agreement to discover and develop novel treatments for cardiometabolic diseases. The collaboration will leverage Valo’s Opal Computational Platform, including access to real-world patient data, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled small-molecule discovery and Biowire human tissue modeling platform designed to speed up the discovery and development process.
A hot biopharma research approach and an equally hot therapeutic area came together in the potential $2.7 billion deal that pairs artificial intelligence (AI) company Valo Health Inc. with Novo Nordisk A/S, which will strive to advance new treatments for cardiometabolic diseases.
Eleven Therapeutics Ltd. has established a research collaboration with Novo Nordisk A/S for the identification of novel molecules that promote precise delivery of nucleic acid for cardiometabolic diseases by leveraging Eleven’s innovative Deliveri platform.
Better Therapeutics Inc. reported that the pivotal trial for its BT-001 prescription digital therapy (PDT) demonstrated significant decreases in hemoglobin A1c at 90 days that improved further at 180 days in participants with type 2 diabetes. The study showed a clear dose-response between greater use of the PDT and improvements in blood glucose levels.
At a recent lecture at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Mehta, who is chief of the laboratory of inflammation and cardiometabolic diseases at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and an adjunct professor of medicine at George Washington University, described his insights into the links between psoriasis, inflammation and cardiometabolic disease.
Rivus Pharmaceuticals Inc. has emerged from stealth and disclosed a $35 million series A round to fund development of its pipeline of “controlled metabolic accelerators,” or CMAs, for treating cardiometabolic diseases.
DUBLIN – For quite some time, cardiometabolic disease has been largely off the map for most small biotechs and for the venture capital investors that support them. Is that situation about to change? Maybe, maybe not was the mixed message arising from a Bio-Europe Spring 2020 virtual panel discussion on cardiometabolic disease.
