Researchers from Guangdong Medical University published data from a study that aimed to identify novel biomarkers that would allow for comprehensive assessment of prognosis and immunotherapy response in patients with testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT).
Palatin Technologies Inc. has obtained U.S. orphan drug designation for PL-7737 for leptin receptor (LEPR) deficiency, including obesity caused by this condition.
Hubble Therapeutics LLC has successfully closed a $7.3 million series A funding round to support progression of its lead candidate, HUB-101, into clinical trials.
Eight months after announcing the $18.5 million first tranche of its series A, Augustine Therapeutics has closed the oversubscribed round at $85 million and is now ready to begin clinical development of its novel histone deacetylase-6 (HDAC6) inhibitors.
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.
Bladder cancers (BCs) that invade the muscle layer are classified as muscle-invasive bladder cancers (MIBCs). The MIBC subtype accounts for around 25% of all BC cases, with a significant proportion of patients presenting distant metastases.