Ascletis Pharma Inc. announces that the company has filed an IND application with the FDA for ASC-10, an oral antiviral drug candidate targeting viral polymerase of monkeypox virus.
Enveric Biosciences Inc. has nominated EB-373 as the lead development candidate to emerge from its EVM201 program. EB-373 is under development for the treatment of anxiety disorders.
Researchers from Anacor Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Pfizer Inc. have published preclinical data for the novel benzoxaborole prodrug AN-15368, being developed for the treatment of Chagas disease.
Local tumor conversion of a prodrug to an active agent using clinically relevant radiotherapy may herald a new era in targeted and directed cancer chemotherapy.