Sino Biopharmaceutical Ltd. subsidiary Chia Tai-Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. has acquired greater China rights to lanifibranor from Inventiva SA in a deal worth up to $307 million. Included in the deal are rights to develop and commercialize the drug in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and other metabolic diseases.
Aqualung Therapeutics Corp. has been awarded two 3-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fast Track awards to support development of ALT-100 (enamptcumab), a humanized monoclonal antibody therapy for the chronic indications of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
The May 2014 approval of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.’s Entyvio (vedolizumab) brought welcome news in the form of an important mechanism of action for patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, but also means a burdensome course of administration – 30 minutes’ worth of infusion every six weeks, a drawback that other developers are trying to remedy. Standouts among the up-and-comers are Morphic Holding Inc., with an oral candidate that works through the same mechanism of action as Entyvio, and Protagonist Therapeutics Inc.
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).
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