Amgen Inc. quit a development deal with Kyowa Kirin Co. Ltd., returning global rights for rocatinlimab, Kyowa Kirin’s T-cell rebalancing therapy being investigated for moderate to severe atopic dermatitis.
Citing the “totality of data,” Sanofi SA plans to file global regulatory submissions this year for amlitelimab in atopic dermatitis, despite mixed results from two additional phase III trials testing the OX40-ligand (OX40L) inhibitor the pharma firm has been positioning as a potential successor to its Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.-partnered blockbuster, Dupixent (dupilumab).
Corvus Pharmaceuticals Inc. rolled out new positive data to prove its thesis on the value of blocking IL-2-inducible T-cell kinase in atopic dermatitis (AD), and the company’s first-in-class approach “could shake up cancer and autoimmune disorders,” Wainwright analyst Swayampakula Ramakanth said when he started coverage Jan. 2.
Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co. Inc. President and CEO Kazuhide Nakatomi is leading a management buyout to take the company private, citing mounting drug pricing pressures and tougher listing requirements on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Just a few weeks after reporting positive data with izicopan (INF-904) in hidradenitis suppurativa and chronic spontaneous urticaria, Inflarx NV is putting most of its chips on the oral complement C5a receptor inhibitor going forward.
The U.S. FDA signaled during a Type B meeting that existing data could support a BLA filing for Moonlake Immunotherapeutics AG’s sonelokimab to treat the skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), despite one of two pivotal phase III trials missing the mark.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd.’s oral tyrosine kinase 2 inhibitor, zasocitinib (TAK-279), met the co-primary endpoints and all ranked secondary endpoints in two pivotal phase III studies in patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.
A would-be psoriasis winner began taking more distinct shape in the competitive oral tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) inhibitor space, and shares of Alumis Inc. (NASDAQ:ALMS) closed Jan. 6 at $16.23, up $7.92, or 95% – having traded as high as $22.30 – after unveiling positive top-line results from the phase III Onward1 and Onward2 trials with envudeucitinib (envu). Alumis CEO Martin Babler called 2026 “a value-inflection year. It starts today.”
The strategy of taking aim at IL-4Ra (type I and II receptors) and IL-31 by way of a bispecific antibody in atopic dermatitis (AD) has not worked out as well as Johnson & Johnson (J&J) hoped when, last May, the firm paid $1.25 billion to bring the product aboard by acquiring Yellow Jersey Therapeutics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Numab Therapeutics AG.
Relation Therapeutics Ltd. will collaborate with Novartis AG in a $1.7 billion deal to develop multiple programs to find and advance targets for treating atopic diseases caused by immune dysregulation. Novartis will pay Relation an up-front amount, an equity investment and R&D funding of $55 million. It’s the company’s second deal with big pharma in the past 12 months.
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