In a deal worth $100 million up front and up to $1.25 billion in milestone payments, Bioarctic AB licensed its pyroglutamate-amyloid-β (pyroglutamate-Aβ) antibody program to Bristol Myers Squibb Co. to advance treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.
Biopolar Hongye (Nantong) Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has described proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) comprising an E3 ubiquitin ligase cereblon (CRBN) binding moiety covalently linked to a Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) binding moiety reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals LLC has divulged eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2-α kinase 3 (PERK) and/or GCN2 inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and amyloidosis.
Solve Therapeutics Inc. has identified antibody-drug conjugates comprising an UC-961 antibody or a tyrosine-protein kinase transmembrane receptor ROR2 (ROR2)-targeting antibody covalently linked to exatecan through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
DM Intelligence Medicine Ltd. has disclosed leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2; dardarin), LRRK2 (G2019S mutant) and/or EGFR (HER1; erbB1 mutant) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, neurological and immunological disorders.
Cstone Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. has filed a clinical trial application in Australia seeking to initiate a first-in-human study of CS-2009 for solid tumors. The company plans to initiate a multi-regional trial for CS-2009 in Australia early next year, followed by expansion into China and the U.S.
Differentiated thyroid cancers (DTC) and anaplastic thyroid cancers (ATC) often develop primary and acquired resistance to standard treatments. This highlights the need for new therapeutic strategies to treat these thyroid tumors. Previous research observed that the pyrimidine ring of the 2,4-diaminopyrimidine moiety could often form critical hydrogen bonds with kinases, leading to strong inhibitory activity.
Researchers from Nanjing University and Peking University presented the discovery and preclinical characterization of novel NLRP3 inhibitors as potential therapeutic candidates for the treatment of gout.
Radiopharm Theranostics Ltd. has been granted Belberry Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) approval in Australia to initiate a first-in-human phase I therapeutic study of 177Lu-labeled RAD-202 (177Lu-RAD-202) for the treatment of HER2-expressing solid tumors, including breast and gastric cancers.