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Disco Pharmaceuticals GmbH announced the final close of its seed round at €36 million (US$42 million), as it shapes up novel targets it has discovered with its surfaceome platform technology for formal preclinical development.
Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. and Shanghai Hansoh Biomedical Co. Ltd. have described compounds acting as gastric inhibitory polypeptide receptor (GIPR), glucagon receptor (GCGR) and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD, NAFLD), diabetes and obesity.
Chengdu Sibeibo Pharmaceutical Technology Co. Ltd. has divulged deuterated derivatives of taladegib acting as Hedgehog signaling inhibitors and protein smoothened (SMO) antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Ascentage Pharma (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. and China Pharmaceutical University have identified proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) compounds comprising an E3 ubiquitin ligase-binding moiety coupled to B-cell lymphoma 6 protein (BCL6)-targeting moiety through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Scientists at East China Normal University and East China University of Science & Technology have synthesized 5’-nucleotidase (CD73) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Chengdu Kangnuoxing Biopharma Inc. and Keymed Biosciences Co. Ltd. have disclosed antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) comprising antibody or antigen binding fragments targeting cadherin-17 (CDH17) linked to a cytotoxic drug through a linker.
Orthoflaviruses such as dengue, West Nile and Zika viruses are a threat to public health for which no specific treatments exist. Their protease NS2B-NS3, also called orthoflavivirin, is an attractive drug target because it is essential for virus maturation. Targeting viral proteases has already proven effective for creating drugs against HIV, hepatitis C and SARS-CoV-2 viruses.
Researchers from Wuhan Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Jianghan University and collaborators recently showed that activating the endogenous transcription factors Ngn2 and Isl1 via CRISPRa can directly reprogram astrocytes into functional motor neurons in the mouse spinal cord.
Peptidream Inc. has announced approval of a clinical research protocol for [64Cu]PD-29875, a Claudin 18.2-targeting 64Cu-labeled radiopharmaceutical, in patients with gastric cancer.
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