Pyrotech (Beijing) Biotechnology Co. Ltd. has identified gasdermin-E (GSDME) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of genetic diseases, cancer, viral infection, age-related macular degeneration, autoimmune diseases, neurological disorders, renal disorders and cancer therapy-associated disorders.
Nuphase Therapeutics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has disclosed compounds acting as interleukin-17A/A homodimer and IL-17A/F heterodimer inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
Littdd Medicines Ltd. has described mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1) and/or mTOR complex 2 (mTORC2) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, transplant rejection, autoimmune and metabolic diseases, Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease, among others.
Researchers at Shanghai Jingxin Biopharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and Zhejiang Jingxin Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. have divulged compounds acting as leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2; dardarin) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.
Aurigene Oncology Ltd. has identified proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) compounds comprising an E3 ubiquitin ligase protein binding moiety covalently linked to probable global transcription activator SNF2L2 (SMARCA2; BAF190B; SNF2-α) and/or transcription activator BRG1 (SMARCA4; BAF190A; SNF2-β) binding moieties through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Neurocrine Biosciences Inc. has disclosed vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders, among others.
Scientists at Indiana University and Purdue Research Foundation have synthesized inositol polyphosphate-5-phosphatase D (SHIP-1; INPP5D) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, vascular cognitive impairment, Lewy body dementia and frontotemporal dementia.
Patent litigation doesn’t always create outlandish damages awards but when it does, the outlandishness typically trends toward inordinately large sums. This was decidedly not the case in the Federal Circuit hearing in a patent lawsuit pitting Intuitive Surgical Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., against Rex Medical LP, of Conshohocken, Pa., given the damages awarded to Rex amounted to a mere $1.
John Squires, the recently anointed director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, has determined that a machine learning patent application met the standard for patent subject matter eligibility, an outcome that seems to bode well for ML-based patent applications going forward.
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