Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is a chronic complication of type 1 and type 2 diabetes with albuminuria and progressive kidney failure; about 20%-40% of patients with diabetes will develop some type of kidney disease.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) progression involves microglial activation, and restoring or maintaining microglia homeostasis is a therapeutic approach to fight against AD.
Researchers from Lifordi Immunotherapeutics Inc. have developed a novel antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) called LFD-200 that aims to selectively deliver a potent glucocorticoid (GC) payload directly to immune cells. This strategy may potentially offer a new way to treat autoimmune and inflammatory conditions while minimizing systemic toxicity.
Centessa Pharmaceuticals plc has obtained IND clearance from the FDA to initiate a phase I study of ORX-142 in healthy volunteers. ORX-142 is an investigational, novel, highly potent and selective OX2R agonist being developed for the treatment of select neurological and neurodegenerative disorders.
“The lack of therapeutic precision in treatment of myeloid malignancies is in sharp contrast with the fact that myeloid cancers represent the perhaps best characterized cancers of all at the cellular, molecular, and genetic levels,” Johanna Olweus told her audience at the Friday plenary session of the European Hematology Association 2025 Annual Congress.
Nanjing Mingde New Drug Research Co. Ltd. has described potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily KQT member 2/3 (KCNQ2/3) activators reported to be useful for the treatment of epilepsy.
Breakpoint Therapeutics GmbH has divulged Werner syndrome ATP-dependent helicase (WRN; RECQ3; RECQL2) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Rubedo Life Sciences Inc. has identified Bcl-2-like protein 1 (Bcl-xl; Bcl-X; BCL2L1) inhibitors acting as senolytic agents reported to be useful for the treatment of autoimmune disease, cancer, cardiovascular disorders, cognitive disorders, diabetes, inflammatory, metabolic and neurological disorders, among others.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. has synthesized tyrosine-protein phosphatase non-receptor type 6 (PTPN6; PTP-1C; SH-PTP1) activators reported to be useful for the treatment of autoimmune disease and cancer.
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