Nextgen Bioscience Co. Ltd. describes new compounds acting as hypoxia inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) or vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) inhibitors and reported to be useful for the treatment of stroke, cancer, obesity, asthma, glaucoma, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimer’s disease, among others.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has disclosed new heterocyclic compounds acting as NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitors.

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. have identified new monoglyceride lipase (MGLL; MAGL) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of pain, cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, endometriosis, asthma, mental diseases and neurological and renal disorders.

Astellas Pharma Inc. has patented new proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) comprising a cereblon E3 ubiquitin ligase-binding moiety coupled to GTPase KRAS (G12V mutant)-targeting agent through a linker.

Researchers at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. have described bicyclic tetrahydrothiazepine derivatives acting as diacylglycerol kinase α (DGK-α, DGKA) and/or diacylglycerol kinase ζ (DGK-ζ, DGKZ) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.

University of Colorado has divulged efflux pump (bacterial) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of bacterial infections, particularly, gram-negative bacterial infections.

Macquarie University has identified 3C-like proteinase (3CLpro; Mpro; nsp5) (SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19 virus) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19).

Scientists at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have synthesized mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 3 (SMAD3) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of renal, hepatic and pulmonary fibrosis.

Sravathi AI Technology Pvt Ltd. has disclosed ectonucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase family member 1 (ENPP1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.