A pair of co-published filings from Naples, Fla.-based Aerwave Medical Inc. describe apparatus and ultrasound-based methods for bronchial denervation, ablating smooth muscle or goblet cells, and emphysematous tissue remodeling in the treatment of respiratory conditions such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Arvinas Operations Inc. has synthesized proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTACs) compounds comprising an E3 ubiquitin ligase-binding moiety coupled to a B-cell lymphoma 6 protein (BCL6)-targeting moiety through a linker.
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC has patented potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily C member 1 (Kv3.1; KCNC1) activators reported to be useful for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Scorpion Therapeutics Inc. has found compounds acting as cellular tumor antigen p53 (TP53) (Y220C mutant) activators reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
A Tisento Therapeutics Inc. patent describes new soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) activators reported to be useful for the treatment of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, vascular dementia, ischemic stroke, Leigh syndrome, Pearson syndrome, creatine deficiency syndrome and Alpers syndrome, among others.
Aurigene Oncology Ltd. has disclosed new bicyclic heteroaryl compounds acting as membrane-associated tyrosine- and threonine-specific Cdc2-inhibitory kinase (PKMYT1) inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of cancer.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. has identified alkylamine-containing small-molecule B-cell lymphoma 6 protein (BCL6) degradation inducers potentially useful for the treatment of lymphoma.