Researchers from Northeast Agricultural University and Jiangsu Kanion Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. aimed to improve the oncolytic effect of existing Newcastle disease virus (NDV) vectors using engineering strategies to accelerate their clinical translation.
Researchers from Tango Therapeutics Inc. presented preclinical efficacy data on TNG-456, a selective MTA-cooperative PRMT5 inhibitor under development for the treatment of glioma and other tumors that frequently metastasize to the brain, such as non-small-cell lung cancer.
SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. has signed a license agreement with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) to acquire rights to WARF’s WT-7695, a preclinical-stage radiopharmaceutical therapy candidate developed in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. has gained clinical trial clearance from China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for JMT-206 for weight management in individuals with obesity or overweight and at least one weight-related comorbidity.
The number of deaths caused by prion diseases reaches about 30,000 annually. Only 5 months pass from the diagnosis of seemingly healthy patients to the fatal outcome of this neurodegenerative condition, and just 1 month until quality of life is completely lost. Removing the brain protein that causes this genetic or infectious disorder could be achieved thanks to new gene-silencing techniques. At a special meeting of the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy, in “AAV-mediated epigenetic editing for prion disease,” Sonia Vallabh presented not just the data of her research, but the impact of this disease on her family and on herself.
Myrio Therapeutics Pty Ltd. has been able to accomplish something no other company has yet been able to crack: to develop binders where both the affinity and the specificity can be increased.
Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation has described peptides acting as Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling inhibitors and antioxidants reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer as well as immunological, dermatological and inflammatory disorders.
Insilico Medicine IP Ltd. has divulged serine/threonine-protein salt-inducible kinase (SIK) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of autoimmune disease, cancer, metabolic diseases, transplant rejection, and cardiovascular, dermatological, inflammatory and respiratory disorders, among others.
Chengdu Chipscreen Pharmaceutical Ltd. has identified S-adenosylmethionine synthase isoform type-2 (Mat2A) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Biohaven Therapeutics Ltd. has synthesized pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2) activators reported to be useful for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, retinitis pigmentosa and fibrosis.
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