Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG and Immunitas Therapeutics Inc. have signed a global licensing agreement for a preclinical antibody program being developed for chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
Cue Biopharma Inc. has reached a preclinical milestone in its collaboration and license agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, following the latter’s selection of a first compound for lead optimization. The milestone triggers a $7.5 million payment to Cue.
CDR-Life Inc. has announced the achievement of the first preclinical milestone under its 2025 license agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG. This milestone underscores progress in the companies’ efforts to develop next-generation antibody-based therapies for autoimmune diseases.
Work at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG has led to the synthesis of pyrazolo[5,1-f][1,2,4]triazin-4-ones acting as NADPH oxidase 4 (NOX4) inhibitors. As such, they are described as potentially useful for the treatment of liver disease, portal hypertension, viral infection, cancer, interstitial lung diseases, retinopathy, inflammation and fibrosis.
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG has synthesized peptide-lipid drug conjugates comprising a neuromedin U NMU2 receptor agonist peptide. They are reported to be useful for the treatment of obesity.
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG has described cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (MB21D1; cGAS) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of autoinflammatory interferonopathy, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, cirrhosis, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), interstitial lung diseases, systemic scleroderma (systemic sclerosis) and systemic lupus erythematosus.
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG has described stimulator of interferon genes protein (STING; TMEM173) antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of glaucoma, rheumatoid arthritis, heart failure, sepsis, interstitial lung diseases, nonalcoholic or metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (NASH/MASH), bloom syndrome and cancer.
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG and CDR-Life Inc. have entered into a new global licensing agreement to develop CDR-111 for autoimmune diseases.
