University of California Oakland has described potassium channel subfamily K member 2 (TREK-1; KCNK2) and/or potassium channel subfamily K member 10 (TREK2; KCNK10) activators reported to be useful for the treatment of Caisson disease (decompression sickness), depression, headache, pulmonary hypertension, insomnia, chronic pain, lung and neuronal Injury.
University of Antwerp has identified substituted phenothiazines acting as ferroptosis inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of acute renal failure, sepsis, ischemia-reperfusion injury, neurological and iron metabolism disorders, transplant rejection and chronic kidney disease, among others.
Researchers at Oncopia Therapeutics Inc. (dba Proteovant Therapeutics Inc.) and University of Michigan have synthesized proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) compounds comprising a Von Hippel-Lindau disease tumor suppressor (VHL) binding moiety covalently linked to a probable global transcription activator SNF2L2 (SMARCA2; BAF190B; SNF2-α) and/or transcription activator BRG1 (SMARCA4; BAF190A; SNF2-β) targeting moiety through a linker.
Scientists at Jisikai (Suzhou) Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and Yaopharma Co. Ltd. have disclosed polycyclic N-heterocyclic ketone compounds reported to be useful for the treatment of HIV infection.
Zinc transporter ZIP6, also known as LIV-1, is a transmembrane protein that is an interesting target for antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) therapy because of its higher expression in tumors and almost no expression in normal tissues.
Trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) is a member of the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) TAAR family, which has been shown to be enriched in the central nervous system and periphery. TAAR1 can couple to diverse G protein subtypes, including Gs, Gq and Gi. Shandong University investigators have recently reported the discovery of a novel TAAR1 agonist as an antipsychotic drug candidate.
With the aim of overcoming drug resistance and reducing the toxicities associated with pan-fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) inhibitors, scientists from 3H Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. developed a highly selective and potent small-molecule inhibitor of FGFR2, 3HP-2827, to be developed for the treatment of FGFR2‑driven solid tumors.
The FDA has granted orphan drug designation to the active ingredient in Soligenix Inc.’s Marvax, a heat stable subunit protein vaccine of recombinantly expressed Marburg marburgvirus (MARV) glycoprotein, for the prevention and post-exposure prophylaxis against MARV infection.
A research team at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), funded by Cancervax Inc., has created a promising new bispecific antibody vaccine for treating recurrent Ewing sarcoma.