Amgen Inc. has shrugged off a Cantor Fitzgerald analyst report that wiped about $12 billion from the company’s market cap. The Nov. 12 analyst report noted supplemental data from the company’s phase I study of obesity drug Maritide showing bone mineral density loss in patients.
Apollo Therapeutics Group Ltd. and Sunshine Lake Pharma Co. Ltd. inked a potential $938 million licensing deal for APL-18881 (HEC-88473), Sunshine’s dual fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21)/glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist currently in a phase II study for type 2 diabetes.
Positive findings from a phase III trial of semaglutide in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) is moving Novo Nordisk A/S to expand the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonist’s indications in the U.S. and Europe, the Danish pharma said, as the MASH field sights more novel therapies.
Youngene Therapeutics Co. Ltd. has divulged glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, obesity, prediabetes, metabolic syndrome, stroke, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, cardiovascular and renal disorders, among others.
Primary aldosteronism (PA), caused by bilateral adrenal hyperplasia or aldosteronomas, is the leading cause of endocrine hypertension, with an estimated prevalence of 10%-20% in patients in tertiary hospitals.
Gene therapy faces complexities in delivering treatments due to persistent safety concerns and daunting immune responses, but Next Generation Gene Therapeutics Inc. has found a way around this issue using dual-functional vectors to simultaneously remove harmful, mutated genes and replace them with normal, healthy genes to restore cellular function.
Gene therapy faces complexities in delivering treatments due to persistent safety concerns and daunting immune responses, but Next Generation Gene Therapeutics Inc. has found a way around this issue using dual-functional vectors to simultaneously remove harmful, mutated genes and replace them with normal, healthy genes to restore cellular function.
Setonix Pharmaceuticals has described peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) modulators reported to be useful for the treatment of inflammatory disorders, metabolic syndrome, obesity, viral infection, cancer, lipid metabolism and glucose metabolism disorders.
Researchers from Congruence Therapeutics Inc. have described the development of a mouse model of genetic obesity with a clinically relevant, naturally occurring human melanocortin MC4 receptor (MC4R) mutation.
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