Medshine Discovery Inc. has patented new sulfinylpyridine-containing nonreceptor tyrosine-protein kinase TYK2 inhibitors expected to be useful for the treatment of Crohn's disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis and ulcerative colitis.
Altimmune Inc. has come under scrutiny from investors after weight loss data from a phase Ib trial of its nonalcoholic fatty liver disease drug, pemvidutide, sent its shares on a roller coaster ride.
Concentric Analgesics Inc. has discovered transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 8 (TRPM8) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of oropharyngeal dysphagia.
Shares in Akero Therapeutics Inc. more than doubled in value after the company announced results from a phase IIb nonalcoholic steatohepatitis trial that it believes show lead candidate efruxifermin could challenge other candidates in development for the fatty liver disease targeted by so many biotechs and big pharmas.
Qilu Regor Therapeutics Inc. has identified (hetero)arylamino-cyclohexyl-sulfonyl derivatives acting as C-C chemokine receptor type 6 (CCR6) antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has cleared CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Limited to conduct clinical trials of TG-103 injection for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
Purnovate Inc., a subsidiary of Adial Pharmaceuticals Inc., has obtained promising in vivo data from a study in mice treated with PNV-6005 as a potential treatment for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
In the largest study to date for Crohn's disease, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard identified rare variants of 10 genes associated with this pathology. The researchers sequenced the exomes of 110,000 people, 30,000 patients with Crohn's and 80,000 without this condition, with the participation of a hundred international scientific institutions.
Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) signaling to intraepithelial lymphocyte (IEL) cells in the gut, where most GLP-1 is made, was important for inflammation in the gut itself, but less so for systemic inflammation.
PharminoGen has presented prazole-carboxamide derivatives acting as cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), alcoholic liver disease, dyslipidemia and diabetes.
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