Pfizer Inc. is ending work on oral GLP-1 candidate danuglipron for weight loss following the report of a single potentially drug-induced liver injury, a move that appears to open the door for other firms working on oral therapies in the high-dollar obesity space, even as industry watchers seek further details to determine whether similar safety signals could emerge for those competitors.
Researchers from Lund University and collaborators have investigated the potential of selectively targeting TUBG1 as a therapeutic strategy in cancer treatment.
Northstrive Biosciences Inc., a subsidiary of PMGC Holdings Inc., has entered into a development and license agreement with Yuva Biosciences Inc. to discover and develop novel pharmaceutical treatments for obesity, type 2 diabetes and other cardiometabolic conditions using Yuva’s mitochondrial science-focused platform Mitonova, powered by AI.
Tryptamine Therapeutics Ltd. is gearing up to enter the clinic with lead compound TRP-8803, an intravenous-infused psilocybin therapy, in patients with binge eating disorder in conjunction with psychotherapy.
Alzheon Inc.’s oral treatment for people in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease missed its phase III primary endpoint, adding yet another therapy to a long list by many developers that can’t beat dementia. The study also received grant money, which is in increasingly short supply.
As developers continue to search for better amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) therapies, Neurosense Therapeutics Ltd. turned up some hopeful findings from its phase IIb Paradigm trial with PrimeC. The drug, a combination therapy (ciprofloxacin and celecoxib) designed to target multiple ALS pathways, is having salutary effects on microRNA modulation (miRNA), Neurosense said, with the study showing a “profound and consistent” downregulation of 161 mature miRNAs across all time points in the double-blind period of the experiment.
The U.S. FDA’s accelerated approval of Vanrafia (atrasentan) from Novartis AG for primary immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is the company’s second approval for the indication in the past year and a half. The nod also came without a required safety program through a black box warning.
Aldeyra Therapeutics Inc. is hoping that research already underway will satisfy the U.S. FDA, which delivered to the company another complete response letter (CRL) related to the NDA for reproxalap in dry eye disease (DED).
Top-line data from the second and third parts of Edgewise Therapeutics Inc.’s four-part phase II Cirrus-HCM study in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) has produced more positive data. There was however less enthusiasm for the results than there had been in September for the first batch of data.
Pannexin 1 (PANX1) forms channels that may release signaling metabolites that are involved in a variety of pathophysiological processes, such as asthma, diabetes, hypertension or inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), among others. Inhibition of PANX1 when dysregulated has been proposed as a therapeutic approach in the treatment of IBD.
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