Last week, the 2024 meeting of the International AIDS Society (IAS) was wrapping up as the 2024 Olympic Games were about to begin. That timing was probably what prompted the use of multiple sports analogies at Thursday’s plenary session on HIV prevention strategies. Given the decades-long attempts at developing an HIV vaccine, Peter Piot, past IAS president and director emeritus and professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said in his introduction: “This is clearly a marathon. But marathons also finish.”
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered estrogen-related receptor α (ERRα; ERR1) inverse agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, obesity, hypertension, gallstone, osteoporosis, metabolic syndrome, hyperuricemia and Alzheimer's disease.
A Suzhou Puhe Biopharma Co. Ltd. patent reports new Werner syndrome ATP-dependent helicase (WRN; RECQ3; RECQL2) inhibitors described as potentially useful for the treatment of cancer.
Cyclin-dependent kinase 12 (CDK12)/cyclin K and CDK13/cyclin K inhibitors have been described in a Nanjing Sanhome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. patent and are reported to be potentially useful for the treatment of cancer.
Insilico Medicine Inc. has prepared and tested new spirocyclic mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase kinase 1 (MAP4K1; HPK1; MEKKK1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and viral infections.
Fermitin family homolog 1 (FERMT1), a member of the kindlin family of focal adhesion proteins, plays a pivotal role in mediating integrin-dependent cell adhesion and signaling. Scientists at Fujian Medical University (FJMU) assessed the functional significance of FERMT1 in glioma progression and stemness.
Researchers from Edgewise Therapeutics Inc. presented preclinical data for the cardiac sarcomere modulator, EDG-7500, which is being developed for the treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and other diseases of diastolic dysfunction.
G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) drug discovery and development specialist Confo Therapeutics NV has closed a €60 million (US$65.2 million) series B round that will fund a significant expansion of the inhouse portfolio while it continues to turn the handle on its technology platform to generate more compounds for partnering.
Researchers from Universite de Sherbrooke and University of California San Francisco presented the discovery and preclinical characterization of CCR2-targeting pepducin, PP-101.