Clostridioides difficile has been traditionally isolated from health care facilities' inpatients, but it is increasingly being identified in people who have not recently been hospitalized and is more and more found in community settings. Investigators from Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania have developed an mRNA-LNP vaccine with promising results in preventing and controlling C. difficile infection.
Insitro Inc. has signed three strategic agreements with Eli Lilly & Co. focused on advancing potential new medicines for metabolic diseases, including metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), based on targets identified by Insitro using its artificial intelligence/machine learning-based platform.
Clostridioides difficile has been traditionally isolated from healthcare facilities' inpatients, but it is increasingly being identified in people who have not recently been hospitalized and is more and more found in community settings. Investigators from Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania have developed an mRNA-LNP vaccine with promising results in preventing and controlling C. difficile infection.
Danish pharma giant Novo Nordisk A/S is set to launch its blockbuster glucagon-like peptide-1 therapy, Wegovy (semaglutide), in South Korea’s growing obesity therapeutics market next week, a company official confirmed to BioWorld.
Shattuck Labs Inc. has announced a strategic shift to focus on SL-325, a death receptor 3 (DR3) antagonist antibody for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and other inflammatory autoimmune diseases.
Shattuck Labs Inc. opted, as one analyst put the matter, to do “the right thing early” by ending the clinical program with phase I-stage SL-172154 and shift resources to SL-325, a death receptor 3 antagonist, initially for inflammatory bowel disease, where TL1A/DR3-blocking antibodies have shown compelling monotherapy efficacy.
A collaborating team of researchers from the U.K.’s University College London and the Incliva Biomedical Research Institute in Valencia, Spain, filed for protection of a machine learning model called AMMON-OHE to predict occurrence of overt hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis of the liver.
Palisade Bio Inc. has submitted a clinical trial application (CTA) for PALI-2108 for the treatment of ulcerative colitis, following a pre-CTA consultation meeting with Health Canada. Pending clearance, the company anticipates initiating a phase I study by year-end.
Mabylon AG has been awarded three grants totaling more than CHF1.3 million (US$1.5 million) from Innosuisse Swiss Innovation Agency, Target ALS and the ALS Association.
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