IMU Biosciences Ltd. has closed its series A at £40 million (US$53.9 million), adding £28.5 million to the initial close in January 2024, and bringing the total raised since the company’s formation in 2021 to £45 million. Since that first close, IMU has built what is claimed as the world’s largest high-definition immune system dataset, with almost 25,000 profiles of healthy volunteers and disease-specific patient cohorts.
Changchun Genescience Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. has discovered new ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 30 (USP30) inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of mitochondrial and Parkinson’s disease.
Chomix Biotech (Nanjing) Co. Ltd. has patented new irreversible fibroblast activation protein-α (FAPα) inhibitors potentially useful for the diagnosis or treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, cancer, myocardial infarction, kidney fibrosis, pulmonary and hepatic fibrosis, and among others.
Synnovation Therapeutics Inc. has identified new heterocyclic poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase (PARG) inhibitors described as useful for the treatment of cancer.
Bristol Myers Squibb Co. (BMS) has disclosed new 1H-benzo[d]imidazole derivatives acting as calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase type II (CAMK2) inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of anxiety disorders, asthma, cardiomyopathy, diabetes, fibrosis, heart failure, hypertension and allergy, among others.
Transforming growth factor-β-activated kinase 1 (TAK1) is a crucial central signaling molecule of hepatic cell death, inflammation and fibrogenesis through NF-κB and MAPK in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). Its pharmacological inhibition using the TAK1 inhibitor HS-276 was tested in vivo in a murine model of diet-induced MASLD.
There is a growing consensus that alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) should be considered a metabolic disorder under the influence of the gut-liver axis. Metabolome data have highlighted fatty acid-activated G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) as the main affected pathways, where the relationship of G-protein-coupled receptor 119 (GPR119) with ALD remains unexplored.
Adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL), a central mediator of triglyceride hydrolysis and fatty acid mobilization, modulates hepatic lipid homeostasis and metabolic signaling pathways that contribute to the activation of fibrogenic responses.
Tavo Biotherapeutics Inc. has successfully closed a $17 million series A financing, with the proceeds directed to advancing the company’s pipeline of innovative therapies targeting glaucoma and retinal disease.
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