Haisco Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. has described lysophosphatidic acid receptor 1 (LPAR1; EDG2) antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, systemic sclerosis, benign prostate hyperplasia, multiple sclerosis, neuronal injury and neuralgia.
Investigators from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and the University Health Network have synthesized triazolopyridopyrimidine and dihydroimidazopyridopyrimidine derivatives acting as eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2-alpha kinase 4 (GCN2) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and peripheral neuropathy.
Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry have divulged EGFR (L858R/T790M/C797S triple mutant) and EGFR (del19/T790M/C797S triple mutant) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Shenzhen Zhongge Biotechnology Co. Ltd. prepared and tested cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme, mitochondrial (CYP11A1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Scientists from F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. have patented NLRP3 inflammasome and interleukin-1β (IL1B; IL-1β) release inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
Hangzhou Bio Sincerity Pharmaceutical Technology Co. Ltd. has identified new benzazepinone derivatives acting as receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 1 (RIPK1; RIP-1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Work at Artivila (Shenzhen) Innovation Center Ltd. has led to the discovery of new leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2; Dardarin) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, leprosy, tuberculosis, colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease.
New protein arginine N-methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) inhibitors are detailed in a Scinnohub Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. patent and described as potentially useful for the treatment of cancer.
A recent patent from Korea University Research & Business Foundation Sejong Campus describes quinazoline-benzimidazole derivatives acting as microtubule destabilizers (tubulin polymerization inhibitors) and HER2 inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.