At the ongoing European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting in Vienna, Hanmi Holdings Co. Ltd. presented preclinical efficacy data on HM-15275, a long-acting GLP-1/GIP/glucagon receptor triple agonist developed for the treatment of obesity and its associated metabolic complications.
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has divulged incretin analogues acting as dual agonists of gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIPR) receptor/GLP-1 or GLP-1/glucagon receptor (GCGR) or triple agonists of GIPR/GLP-1/GCGR reported to be useful for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, obesity, metabolic syndrome, neurodegeneration, fibrosis and cardiovascular disorders.
In one of the top series A financings in biopharma history, new company Kailera Therapeutics Inc. emerged with $400 million raised and a pipeline of next-generation assets to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes.
The FDA has cleared IND applications for UBT-251 injection, a long-acting triple-targeted glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)/glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP)/glucagon receptor agonist developed by The United Bio-Technology (Hengqin) Co. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of The United Laboratories International Holdings Ltd., for adult type 2 diabetes and for overweight or obese subjects.
