Biosion Inc. is getting more than $40 million in cash up front from Aclaris Therapeutics Inc. for the rights to develop two antibodies. The regulatory and sales milestones could also bring Biosion another $900 million. The two assets are BSI-045B, a high affinity and high potency anti-TSLP monoclonal antibody, and BSI-502, a bispecific antibody directed against TSLP and IL4R.
Trex Bio Inc. has closed an oversubscribed $84 million series B financing round to support development of its pipeline of novel therapies that modulate the immune system to restore human tissue immune homeostasis.
Rapt Therapeutics Inc. has decided to shut down its zelnecirnon (RPT-193) program in asthma and atopic dermatitis, causing the company’s stock (NASDAQ:RAPT) to sharply decline Nov. 11.
South Korean researchers developed a novel quantum dot and parallel-stacked organic light-emitting diode (QD-PSOLED)-based wearable patch capable of being “freely tunable” in real-time, and described as a flexible and commercial-level technology with wide applications for health care wearables.
Eli Lilly and Co.’s chief scientific officer, Daniel Skovronsky, called peresolimab, the PD-1 agonist previously in the works by the firm for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a “really interesting mechanism” – but not interesting enough.
Dice Alpha Inc. has prepared and tested substituted 6-imidazopyridazine IL-17A modulators potentially useful for the treatment of psoriasis, radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (ankylosing spondylitis), hidradenitis suppurativa, spondyloarthritis, psoriatic and rheumatoid arthritis.
Understanding the mechanisms that drive the transition from an inflammatory to a proliferative phase during wound healing can aid in developing novel strategies for enhanced tissue repair. Keratinocytes, by undergoing reprogrammed gene expression, play crucial roles in both the inflammatory and proliferative phases of wound healing.
Disc Medicine Inc. found itself after an end-of-phase II meeting with the U.S. FDA in what Wainwright analyst Douglas Tsao called a “best-case scenario” regarding the path forward for bitopertin in erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP).