Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co. Ltd. and Shanghai Hengrui Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. have disclosed Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) and/or TLR8 and/or TLR9 antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjögren’s syndrome.
Allogenica SAS has been awarded a €2.5 million (US$2.7 million) grant under the French government’s France 2030 program to help advance its universal CAR T candidate, XL-001, for CD19-positive hematologic cancers.
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is mainly triggered by immune dysregulation, barrier dysfunction and inflammation propagation, and chronic itching increases the susceptibility to infections.
Investigators from Insmed Inc. have presented new preclinical data on the efficacy of their adenoviral vector (AAV9)-based gene therapy INS-1201 for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
Nitrase Therapeutics Inc. has unveiled a protein named glyoxalase domain-containing protein 4 (GLOD4) responsible for catalyzing selective protein nitration. This reflects a new class of enzymatic activity discovered by the company that had not been previously characterized.
Ampersand Biomedicines Inc. has secured $65 million in series B funding from investors including Ampersand’s founder, Flagship Pioneering, to support advancement of two lead programs and a new discovery partnership in obesity.
At this week’s Muscular Dystrophy Association Clinical and Scientific Conference in Dallas, researchers from Suzhou Genassist Therapeutics Co. Ltd. presented preclinical data for GEN-6050X (ss.AAV9.oTAM and ss.AAV9.hE50-sgRNA).
Quiver Bioscience Inc. is collaborating with the Dup15q Alliance to advance an antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) therapeutic program for chromosome 15q duplication (Dup15q) syndrome.