Medigene AG has obtained FDA clearance of its IND application for lead program MDG-1015 for the treatment of advanced gastric cancer, ovarian cancer, myxoid/round cell liposarcoma and synovial sarcoma.

The FDA has cleared an IND for a phase I/II trial of LA-GLA (GC-1134A, HM-15421), an innovative enzyme replacement therapy for Fabry disease being co-developed by GC Biopharma Corp. and Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

Suven Life Sciences Ltd. has received IND approval from the FDA allowing it to initiate a first-in-human phase I study of SUVN-I6107, a muscarinic M1 receptor positive allosteric modulator (PAM) as a potential new treatment to address the dementia market.

Find Therapeutics Inc. has obtained FDA clearance of its IND application for FTX-101, a first-in-class remyelinating agent that aims to restore vision in people with chronic optic neuropathy.

Immpact Bio USA Inc. has obtained IND clearance from the FDA for IMPT-514, a CD19/CD20 bispecific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for the treatment of adult patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). A phase I trial will focus on patients who have suboptimal disease control despite prior treatment with high efficacy disease-modifying therapies in all forms of MS.

Innovec Pharmaceutical Technology Co. Ltd. (Innovec Biotherapeutics) has received FDA clearance for its IND application for IVB-103, an AAV-based gene therapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Cidara Therapeutics Inc. announced in its Q2 filing that it received IND clearance for its drug-Fc conjugate (DFC) immunotherapy CBO-421 in July of 2024.

Precision Biosciences Inc. has announced that its experimental allogeneic T cell therapy azercabtagene zapreleucel (azer-cel) for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) has received IND clearance from the FDA.