Great Novel Therapeutics Biotech & Medicals Corp.’s epigenetic immunoactivator, GNTbm-38, has received IND clearance from the FDA, enabling initiation of a phase I trial in the U.S.
Kestrel Therapeutics Inc. has obtained IND approval from the FDA for KST-6051, an oral, small-molecule pan-KRAS inhibitor being developed for the treatment of KRAS-driven cancers.
The OX40-targeting mechanism pursued by drug developers around the world found itself shadowed March 3 when Kyowa Kirin Co. Ltd. gave up work with rocatinlimab, a monoclonal antibody for which hopes had risen in moderate to severe atopic dermatitis, prurigo nodularis and moderate to severe asthma.
Haisco Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. has reported fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR2) and FGFR3 inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of cancer.
A Risen (Shanghai) Pharma Eng Co. Ltd. and Risen (Suzhou) Pharma Tech Co. Ltd. patent describes the discovery of new proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) compounds comprising a E3 ubiquitin ligase-binding moiety covalently linked to a GTPase KRAS-targeting moiety. They are reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Chengdu Kendite Biomedical Technology Co. Ltd. has synthesized pyrimidopyrazole compounds acting as non-receptor tyrosine-protein kinase TYK2 (JH2 domain) inhibitors. They are reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, neurodegeneration, autoimmune disease, dermatological and inflammatory disorders.
Neuroblastoma cells harbor a pattern of chromosomal aberrations that include chromosomes 1p and 11q deletions and 2p and 17q gains, as well as MYCN gene amplification with MYC overexpression. Recent research has identified RuvB-like 1 (RUVBL1) and RUVBL2 to be key mediators of the therapeutic response to a promising strategy such as serine/threonine-protein kinase ATR inhibition.
China’s National Medical Products Administration has approved Asieris Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd.’s cold light photodynamic drug-device combination product, Cevira (APL-1702, hexaminolevulinate hydrochloride), which is used as a nonsurgical therapy for treating patients with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2.
On the heels of China’s approval of Sino Biopharmaceutical Ltd.’s rovadicitinib, Sanofi SA is now inlicensing the first-in-class dual JAK/ROCK inhibitor in a deal worth more than $1.4 billion.
Can-Fite Biopharma Ltd.’s namodenoson met the safety endpoint in its phase IIa open-label study in advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma patients, a readout that left investors hopeful for survival data, expected to be disclosed later this year.
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