Biper Therapeutics SAS has announced bridge financing of €800,000 (US$839,000), ahead of the closure of its series A funding round, to advance its pipeline of drug candidates overstressing pathological cells to treat diseases, including cancer.
Structure Therapeutics Inc. has selected a lead oral small-molecule amylin receptor agonist, ACCG-2671, for the treatment of obesity. ACCG-2671 is a dual amylin and calcitonin receptor agonist (DACRA) that is being evaluated for use either alone or in combination with glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists.
Researchers at the University of Leipzig and ETH Zurich have used single-cell sequencing to identify differences between fat tissue of obese individuals who are metabolically unhealthy, and those who were in good metabolic health. The findings, which were published online Dec. 17, 2024, in Cell Metabolism, identify measurements that can be used to decouple obesity from metabolic disease.
Researchers from China Pharmaceutical University reported the discovery and preclinical characterization of allosteric inhibitors of Src homology-2-containing protein tyrosine phosphatase 2 (SHP2) as potential new anticancer agents.
Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry has described leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2; dardarin) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune diseases, inflammatory disorders, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease, among others.
Lento Bio Inc. has synthesized cysteine derivatives reported to be useful for the treatment of presbyopia. An exemplified compound (Cpd in row 4 in tbl1 pg 20, claim 18) decreased in lens stiffness in C57BL/6 mice (at 20 mM; as eye drops).
Iregene Therapeutics (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. has identified pyrazolecarbonyl piperazinone compounds acting as bone morphogenetic protein receptor type-1B (BMPR1B) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and pulmonary hypertension.
B7H3 is a pan-cancer antigen considered a promising target for immunotherapy. However, targeting B7H3 using bispecific T-cell engagers (BiTEs) presents the problem of systemic toxicity.
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