As earlier-stage efforts in oncology continue with BMF-219, Biomea Fusion Inc. rolled out new clinical data June 23 from the first two cohorts of patients with type 2 diabetes enrolled in the phase II part of its ongoing phase I/II study called Covalent-111 testing the same compound, an oral covalent menin inhibitor.
Dong-A ST Co. Ltd.’s DA-1726 is a novel oxyntomodulin analogue and balanced glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R)/glucagon receptor (GCGR) dual agonist under investigation for the treatment of obesity.
Current treatments for Graves’ hyperthyroidism (GH) and Graves’ orbitopathy (GO) are ineffective. Researchers assessed the preclinical in vitro efficacy of SYD-5115 (Byondis BV), a novel low-molecular-weight thyrotropin receptor (TSH-R) antagonist. The compound comprises an N-acetylated dihydropyrrole pyrimidine core with various substituents, including a difluorinated-spirocyclohexyl ring and a chiral carbamate group on the pyrimidine ring.
Investigators from Foresee Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd., Medical University of Vienna and Cleveland Clinic recently reported data on the effects of the matrix metalloproteinase-12 (MMP-12) inhibitor FP-020 in a mouse model of cardiac sarcoidosis in which chronic activation of mTORC1 signaling in myeloid cells causes spontaneous cardiac sarcoid-like granulomas.
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are chronic inflammatory liver diseases. It is known that one of the cell signaling molecules overexpressed in the liver during inflammation is IL-18, which is also a marker of hepatocyte injury and liver steatosis.
Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. presented early results for two candidates for short bowel syndrome (SBS) and hyperinsulinemia, two diseases with limited approved therapies, at the recent annual meeting of the Endocrine Society (ENDO 2023) in Chicago.
Chronic hepatitis B affects around 250 million people in the world and its cure remains elusive. At the 2023 European Association for the Study of the Liver Congress in Vienna, Austria, Emily Harrison of Precision Biosciences Inc. presented the company’s work on using a naturally occurring endonuclease in the development of its ARCUS gene editing approach to eradicating the persistent viral infection.
Researchers from Westlake Therapeutics (Hangzhou) Co. Ltd. have presented the discovery and preclinical evaluation of a novel erythrocyte-anti-PD-1 antibody conjugate, WTX-212, being developed for the treatment of cancer.
At the ongoing European Association for the Study of the Liver meeting, researchers from Suzhou Ribo Life Science Co. Ltd. presented preclinical data on RBD-1016 in two models of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection.