Wall Street was sorting through two batches of news from Jasper Therapeutics Inc., which made public positive data from the phase Ib study called Etesian with KIT-targeting briquilimab in adults with allergic asthma, while making known the outcome of a probe into the phase Ib/II Beacon study with the same drug in chronic spontaneous urticaria.
Vandria SA published phase I data on a potential new mechanism of action in treating Alzheimer’s disease, demonstrating its orally available and brain-penetrant mitochondria-boosting compound, VNA-318, engages its intended target.
Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists clearly help patients shed pounds, but many regain all - or more - of the weight once they discontinue the medications. Fractyl Health Inc. could offer an enduring solution with its Revita procedure. Six-month results from its open-label REVEAL-1 cohort of individuals with obesity who lost 15% or more of their total body weight on a GLP-1 therapy maintained that loss after discontinuing the drugs and undergoing the Revita procedure.
Xeltis BV secured €47.5 million in financing to help bring Axess, its vascular access conduit for hemodialysis, to the market. The funds include a venture debt package of up to €37.5 million from the European Investment Bank and €10 million from existing shareholders.
Myrio Therapeutics Pty Ltd. has been able to accomplish something no other company has yet been able to crack: to develop binders where both the affinity and the specificity can be increased.
Vigencell Inc. plans to seek conditional approval in South Korea for VT-EBV-N, an antigen-specific killer T-cell therapy for natural killer T-cell lymphoma, after gaining positive top-line data from a phase II study Nov. 25.
China’s National Medical Products Administration gave the nod to Innovent Biologics Inc.’s picankibart (IBI-112), branded as Pecondle, for treating moderate to severe plaque psoriasis in adults who are candidates for systemic therapy.
China’s National Medical Products Administration gave the nod to Innovent Biologics Inc.’s picankibart (IBI-112), branded as Pecondle, for treating moderate to severe plaque psoriasis in adults who are candidates for systemic therapy.
The data from Inflarx NV that took Wall Street by surprise also served to heighten attention for the hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) and chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) spaces, where other news has been bubbling lately on the industry as well as scientific fronts.
Attention has turned to the regulatory path worldwide after Belite Bio Inc. unveiled positive top-line data from the phase III Dragon study with oral, daily tinlarebant in Stargardt disease type 1, the most common form of the rare affliction.
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