Vicore Pharma Holding AB was granted a U.S. FDA breakthrough device designation for Almee, a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) software, to be used as an adjunct treatment by patients with anxiety symptoms due to pulmonary fibrosis. Vicore developed the nine-week CBT digital therapy in partnership with Alex Therapeutics AB.
Jinyao Biotechnology (Tianjin) Co. Ltd. has synthesized glucocorticoid receptor (GR) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of psoriasis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, rheumatoid arthritis, atopic dermatitis, eczema, allergic rhinitis and Crohn’s disease.
Shanghai Henlius Biotech Inc.’s IND application for HLX-6018, a novel anti-glycoprotein-A repetitions predominant (GARP)/transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) monoclonal antibody (mAb), has received approval by China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).
Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Nextgen Bioscience Co. Ltd. and Yonsei University have jointly prepared purine derivative compounds acting as adenosine A3 receptor agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of pulmonary fibrosis.
Sionna Therapeutics Inc.’s approach with small molecules in cystic fibrosis (CF) yielded the Boston-based firm an upsized and oversubscribed $182 million series C financing. The company is working on drugs that could fully restore the function of the CF transmembrane conductance regulator protein by stabilizing the first nucleotide-binding domain (NBD1). Four compounds are expected to enter the clinic this year – three NBD1 stabilizers and one ICL4 modulator.
A Tibet Haisco Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. patent describes new phosphodiesterase PDE4B inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Max Biopharma Inc. and Metaba LLC are collaborating to study the effects of oxysterol drug candidates that target metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH, formerly nonalcoholic steatohepatitis or NASH), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, chronic inflammation, and atherosclerosis on metabolic processes.
Researchers from the Peking University Health Science Center have developed a murine model of RSV infection based on the knockout of the Rag2 gene using CRISPR/Cas9 (Rag2-/- mice).
On the verge of top-line data from its phase IIb trial with oral small-molecule CC chemokine receptor 4 (CCR4) antagonist zelnecirnon in atopic dermatitis (AD), due around the middle of this year, Rapt Therapeutics Inc. said the U.S. FDA has imposed a clinical hold on that study with the otherwise promising drug, also known as RPT-193, in AD as well as the phase IIa trial with the same compound in asthma.
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