Harbour Biomed Ltd. has announced the launch of Élancé Therapeutics with an aim to improve the treatment of obesity. Élancé seeks to address challenges in obesity treatment, by increasing overall body weight loss and fat mass loss, while preserving and even increasing muscle and lean mass.

The recent series A financing by Bambusa Therapeutics Inc. to fund bispecific antibodies for immunological and inflammatory disorders proved investor faith in the new approach with a proven mechanism.

Trimtech Therapeutics closed a £25 million (US$31 million) oversubscribed seed funding round to advance its targeted protein degradation treatments for neurodegenerative and inflammatory diseases.

Trimtech Therapeutics closed a £25 million (US$31 million) oversubscribed seed funding round to advance its targeted protein degradation treatments for neurodegenerative and inflammatory diseases.

Several Asia biotechs this week – including Innocare Pharma Ltd., Akeso Pharmaceuticals Inc., Sanbio Co. Ltd. and Ascletis Pharma Inc. – unveiled the start of new late-stage clinical trials or interim findings from early stage studies.

Although immune checkpoint inhibitors have shown noticeable clinical benefits, tumor evasion of single-agent immunotherapy occurs in some patients due to the compensatory role of alternative immune checkpoints. A viable strategy could be the use of combination immunotherapies targeting multiple immunosuppressive pathways to fully activate T cells and enhance response rates.

LTZ Therapeutics Inc. has gained IND approval from the FDA for LTZ-301, a first-in-class myeloid engager immunotherapy intended to treat relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma (r/r NHL).

At the recent 2025 congress of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation, researchers from Helixon Therapeutics presented the discovery and preclinical characterization of HXN-1002, a bispecific antibody simultaneously targeting both α4β7 and TL1A that is being investigated as a potential treatment for inflammatory bowel disease.

Several Asia biotechs this week – including Innocare Pharma Ltd., Akeso Pharmaceuticals Inc., Sanbio Co. Ltd. and Ascletis Pharma Inc. – unveiled the start of new late-stage clinical trials or interim findings from early stage studies.

Researchers from Tianjin University have published data regarding development and preclinical characterization of a new anti-PD-L1/CD40 bispecific antibody (BsAb), BA-4415, designed to activate CD40 signaling specifically in the context of PD-L1 while simultaneously blocking PD-1/PD-L1 signaling.