Stem cells are a promising therapeutic modality to fight aging and age-related disease, speakers at the Bio-Plus Interphex Korea 2025 said. Progress in cell-based longevity medicine is being made, they added, although safety, ethical and regulatory issues are ongoing challenges.
Adocia SA is looking to further apply its Biochaperone formulation technology to metabolic disorders, Olivier Soula, Adocia co-founder and CEO told BioWorld, the firmhaving recently gained positive top-line phase III results of Tonghua Dongbao Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.’s THDB-0206 injection (Biochaperone Lispro) in diabetes patients in China.
Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. announced Oct. 27 that its glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, efpeglenatide (HM-11260C), met the co-primary endpoints in a phase III study of obese adults without diabetes.
Suzhou Spring-Sea Bio-Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. has described polypeptides acting as glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor (GLP-1R), glucagon receptor (GCGR) and gastric inhibitory polypeptide receptor (GIPR) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of dyslipidemia, hepatic steatosis, metabolic syndrome, obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Neumora Therapeutics Inc. has reported preclinical data for NMRA-215, a brain-penetrant, oral NLRP3 inhibitor in development for obesity, suggesting potential utility as a monotherapy as well as in combination with a GLP-1 agonist.
Adocia SA is looking to further apply its Biochaperone formulation technology to metabolic disorders, Olivier Soula, Adocia co-founder and CEO told BioWorld, the firmhaving recently gained positive top-line phase III results of Tonghua Dongbao Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.’s THDB-0206 injection (Biochaperone Lispro) in diabetes patients in China.
Activating the glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor (GLP-1R) is the mechanism of action of most drugs currently used to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes. To enhance efficacy and reduce side effects, many groups have been developing double or triple agonists that, at the same time, also stimulate the receptors for glucagon (GCG) or glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP).
Stem cells are a promising therapeutic modality to fight aging and age-related disease, speakers at the Bio-Plus Interphex Korea 2025 said. Progress in cell-based longevity medicine is being made, they added, although safety, ethical and regulatory issues are ongoing challenges.
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) is a monogenic disease caused by mutations in the SERPINA1 gene, which encodes alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT), a serine protease inhibitor mainly produced by hepatocytes.
The U.S. FDA named the first nine recipients of the recently unveiled commissioner’s national priority voucher (CNPV) program aimed at addressing unmet public health needs by shortening regulatory review times to as little as one to two months. For one of those firms, Disc Medicine Inc., which submitted an NDA for bitopertin for rare genetic disorder erythropoietic protoporphyria in September, that could mean a potential approval before the end of 2025.
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