Scientists from Abbvie Inc. and the Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered a new allosteric MALT1 inhibitor, ABBV-MALT1, for the treatment of certain types of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
LTZ Therapeutics Inc. has completed a series A financing of more than $20 million to advance the development of its myeloid engager pipeline to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases. The closing of this round brings LTZ’s total funding to about $50 million.
The U.S. FDA has approved Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.’s Leqselvi (deuruxolitinib), a JAK1 and JAK2 inhibitor for adults with severe alopecia areata, a chronic autoimmune disease. The twice-daily, oral treatment will be targeting a company-estimated market of about 300,000 people in the U.S. This is the third FDA-approved treatment for severe alopecia areata in the past three years.
GSK plc and Flagship Pioneering Inc. have entered a collaboration to discover and develop a portfolio of therapeutics and vaccines for respiratory and immunology indications.
Parvus Therapeutics Inc.'s PVT-201 has received orphan drug status from the U.S. FDA for the treatment of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), an autoimmune disease of the liver.
Ipsen SA, of Paris, struck a $461 million deal with Day One Biopharmaceuticals Inc. for ex-U.S. rights to tovorafenib, an oral drug for pediatric brain tumor that gained U.S. FDA accelerated approval April 23 as Ojemda (tovorafenib).
The U.S. FDA has approved Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.’s Leqselvi (deuruxolitinib), a JAK1 and JAK2 inhibitor for adults with severe alopecia areata, a chronic autoimmune disease. The twice-daily, oral treatment will be targeting a company-estimated market of about 300,000 people in the U.S. This is the third FDA-approved treatment for severe alopecia areata in the past three years.
With $50 million in hand from Flagship Pioneering, Abiologics Inc. is pairing generative artificial intelligence with high-throughput chemical protein synthesis to attack oncology and immunology indications with Synteins, synthetic proteins that represent a new class of programmable medicines. Avak Kahvejian, co-founder and CEO of Abiologics and general partner at Flagship, told BioWorld that Abiologics stands “at the precipice of a completely new modality.”
Iaso Biotechnology Co. Ltd. has announced that China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved the IND application for IASO-782 injection for a new indication – systemic lupus erythematosus.
The symptoms of allergic rhinitis (AR), such as nasal congestion, runny nose or sneezing, start within minutes of allergen exposure after mast cells release mediators such as histamine, prostaglandins and leukotrienes.
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