With a U.S. biotech identified as One Bio, Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has inked an out-licensing deal potentially worth $1.05 billion for its asthma and chronic sinusitis-targeting drug, SHR-1905. The latest deal gives One Bio exclusive rights to develop, produce and commercialize SHR-1905 worldwide, excluding the greater China territory.
Mysthera Therapeutics AG has launched to develop first-in-class, oral therapeutics to treat complex autoimmune diseases. Seed capital will be used to advance its portfolio of preclinical stage, pan-PIM kinase inhibitors to modulate multi-lineage immune cell functions.
South Korean pharmaceutical firms LG Chem Ltd. and JW Pharmaceutical Corp. are recouping and pressing on with their respective novel gout drugs internationally, with each having faced regulatory setbacks from IND rejections overseas.
Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) is a cytokine involved in the regulation of inflammation in several autoimmune and inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, or psoriasis. Anti-TNF biological treatments in place are effective but there is a need for alternatives with novel pharmacological profiles to overcome their limitations.
With a U.S. biotech identified as One Bio, Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has inked an out-licensing deal potentially worth $1.05 billion for its asthma and chronic sinusitis-targeting drug, SHR-1905. The latest deal gives One Bio exclusive rights to develop, produce and commercialize SHR-1905 worldwide, excluding the greater China territory.
A team from Siemens Medical Solutions Inc. presented a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can predict people’s risk of multiple sclerosis (MS), at the 2023 American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) annual scientific meeting in Anaheim, Calif.
Peptidream Inc. and Modulus Discovery Inc. have nominated the first clinical development candidate arising from the companies’ strategic drug discovery partnership.
Swiss researchers have gained new insights into the relationship between aging, inflammation, neurodegeneration and cognitive decline. EPFL professor Andrea Ablasser and her team showed that brain aging was driven by microglial activation of the cGAS/STING pathway.
The notion of taking aim at the galectin pathway across varied therapeutic areas has gained major traction in recent years, with a handful of companies drawing Wall Street’s interest as efforts plow forth in conditions as varied as cancer, liver fibrosis and Alzheimer’s disease.
Haisco Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. has described propionic acid derivatives acting as integrin α4β7 (LPAM-1) antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of inflammatory disorders.
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