Avstera Therapeutics Corp. has received FDA clearance of its IND application for HDAC6 inhibitor AVS-100. Avstera intends to initiate a phase Ia/b trial in the first half of 2024 to evaluate AVS-100 alone and in combination with pembrolizumab in locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors.
Nrx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced FDA clearance of its IND application for the use of NRX-101 (lurasidone hydrochloride/D-cycloserine) for the treatment of complicated urinary tract infections (cUTI).
Neuexcell Therapeutics Inc. has announced that NXL-004, an investigational AAV gene therapy product being developed for the treatment of malignant glioma, has been awarded orphan drug designation by the FDA.
Iecure Inc. has received clearance from the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of the company’s clinical trial notification (CTN) for ECUR-506 (formerly GTP-506), an investigational therapy in development for the treatment of ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency in pediatric (or neonatal) patients.
Immuneering Corp. has obtained FDA clearance of its IND application for IMM-6-415, an oral, twice-daily small molecule in development for the treatment of advanced RAF or RAS mutant solid tumors.
Gigagen Inc., a subsidiary of Grifols SA, has received clearance from the FDA of its IND application to conduct a phase I trial of GIGA-564 for the treatment of solid tumors.
Nextpoint Therapeutics Inc. has received FDA clearance of its IND application for NPX-887, a fully human monoclonal antibody targeting HHLA2 (B7-H7), a novel immune checkpoint and tumor target antigen highly expressed in many cancers independently of PD-L1.
Vittoria Biotherapeutics Inc. has received FDA clearance of its IND application to initiate a first-in-human phase I trial with VIPER-101, a gene-edited, autologous, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory T-cell lymphoma.
Ractigen Therapeutics Co. Ltd. has submitted a clinical trial application in Australia seeking to conduct a phase I study of RAG-01, a small activating RNA (saRNA) drug candidate, in patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer who have not responded to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) therapy.
Simcere Pharmaceutical Group Ltd.’s subsidiary Simcere Zaiming Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has received FDA clearance of an IND application for SIM-0501, an oral small-molecule inhibitor of ubiquitin-specific peptidase 1 (USP1), for advanced solid tumors.
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