Vantai Inc. has entered into an amended and restated collaboration and license agreement with Blueprint Medicines Corp. to design and advance novel targeted protein degrader therapies.
Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. has obtained FDA clearance of its IND application for CRB-601, a TGF-β-blocking monoclonal antibody targeting the integrin αvβ8. Enrollment in a first-in-human phase I study will open in the first half of this year.
There is a strong relationship between heart failure (HF) and atrial fibrillation (AF): half of the patients with HF acquire AF. Recent studies discovered a genetic basis underlying AF, which demonstrated a strong heritable component to this disease.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a heterogeneous malignancy that starts with the sequential transformation of normal mucosa to adenoma and finally to carcinoma, when it attains metastatic potential. The most frequent metastatic site in CRC is the liver. Researchers from Nanjing Medical University and collaborators identified a significant overexpression of procollagen-lysine,2-oxoglutarate 5-dioxygenase 3 (PLOD3) in liver metastasis tissue samples.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) can be divided into five distinct subtypes based on protein expression levels measured in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The subtypes were associated with different genetic risk factors and are likely to benefit from different treatment approaches.
Many clinicians, drug developers and the general public still “think of Alzheimer’s as a single disease entity, and that suggests that every patient needs to have the same medication,” Betty Tijms told BioWorld.
Patients with celiac disease have gluten-specific CD4+ T cells that recognize gluten via disease-associated human leukocyte antigen (HLA) molecules, specifically HLA-DQ2.5, leading to immune activation and enteropathy.
Keiferx LLC has expanded its exclusive licensing agreement with Georgetown University to advance the development of novel tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) chemical entities for the treatment of multiple disease indications.
Monte Rosa Therapeutics Inc. has described molecular glue degraders comprising cereblon ligands and a casein kinase 1 Isoform α (CK1α) targeting moiety acting as CK1α degradation inducers reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Researchers at Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co. Ltd., Shanghai Fourth People’s Hospital Affiliated Tongji University and Shanghai Senhui Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. have divulged cyclopentyl adenosine derivatives reported to be useful for the treatment of chronic pain.