Beijing Synthetic Vaccine Biosciences Co. Ltd. has synthesized Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of autoimmune disease, cancer, inflammatory disorders and viral infection.
Shanghai Wennai Pharmaceutical Technology Co. Ltd. has disclosed sodium channel protein type 10 subunit α (SCN10A; Nav1.8) blockers reported to be useful for the treatment of acute and chronic pain.
Researchers from Morphic Therapeutic Inc. and affiliated organizations published data from a study that aimed to assess the potential of using arginylglycylaspartic acid (RGD) integrins for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, such as pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).
Ona Therapeutics SL is accelerating development of its first-in-class antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) therapeutics, targeting novel tumor-specific markers to eliminate hard-to-treat, resistant cancer cells for multiple large solid tumor types.
Researchers from Kevirx Inc. and collaborators have described the use of KVX-053, a PTP4A3 inhibitor aimed to be used for the prevention of COVID-19-associated cute lung injury (ALI).
In a recently published study, researchers from Cima Universidad de Navarra and collaborators presented a novel SdAb-based CAR T-cell discovery platform that allows the generation, characterization and selection of SdAbs by several properties.
Septerna Inc. has announced its decision to discontinue a healthy volunteer phase I trial of SEP-786, an oral small-molecule agonist of the parathyroid hormone 1 receptor being developed for the treatment of hypoparathyroidism.
Cystic fibrosis is a life-threatening disease predominantly with respiratory symptoms. Most of the subjects with the disease harbor the F508del variant in the CFTR gene that causes the protein to misfold and be prematurely degraded. Despite approved drugs that restore the CFTR protein, the maximal lung function improvement is approximately 14%.
Kairos Pharma Ltd. has announced that through its academic partnership with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai has received $600,000 in funding from the Department of Defense lung cancer research program to advance the development of ENV-205, a new drug to treat chemotherapy drug resistance and cachexia.
In a recent publication in Cell, researchers from the National University of Singapore and collaborators have proposed using commensal bacteria in the nasal cavity as a delivery vector for precision therapy targeting the OE and brain.