Oregon Health & Science University and Washington University have jointly developed new tetrahydrobenzothiophene and tetrahydropyridothiophene derivatives reported to be useful for the treatment of flavivirus and alphavirus infections.
Recurium IP Holdings LLC has patented new Wee1-like protein kinase (Wee1) inhibitors and/or degradation inducers reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Investigators at the University of Texas have synthesized new mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma translocation protein 1 (MALT1) and Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) dual-target inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune and inflammatory disorders.
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has identified new piperidine- and morpholine-carboxylate compounds acting as sortilin (SORT; NT3; Gp95) antagonists. As such, they are described as potentially useful for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
A Juno Therapeutics Inc. patent describes pyrazole-based DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Several French institutions, including the University of Rennes, have prepared and tested disubstituted ferrocene complexes acting as viral replication inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of viral infections.
Sitala Bio Ltd. has divulged complement factor B (CFB) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration, schizophrenia, atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, membranous nephropathy, myasthenia gravis, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, diabetic retinopathy and rheumatoid arthritis, among others.
Hangzhou Polymed Biopharmaceuticals Inc. has identified proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) compounds comprising a Von Hippel-Lindau disease tumor suppressor (VHL) ligase binding moiety covalently linked to a GTPase KRAS (G12D mutant) targeting moiety via a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.