At the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease 2025 meeting, a panel of experts discussed the need for developing combination therapies for the complex diseases that result in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
On Dec. 2, 2025, the FDA released draft guidance that could reduce the use of nonhuman primates (NHPs) in preclinical testing of monoclonal antibodies. According to the guidance, which the FDA released for the purpose of soliciting comments, “In general, studies longer than 3 months in nonrodent species (e.g., NHPs, dogs, and mini-pigs) are not warranted to evaluate toxicities … when data from 3-month studies are supplemented with a weight-of-evidence (WoE) risk assessment.”
Genescience Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. has described salts of known melanocortin MC4 receptor antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of anorexia nervosa, cachexia, muscle atrophy, nausea and vomiting, sarcopenia, anxiety, bone disorders and inflammatory disorders.
Qingdao Putaike Biomedical Technology Co. Ltd. has divulged hydrophobic tag-based degraders comprising heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) ligands covalently linked to an androgen receptor (AR)-targeting moiety through a linker acting as AR degradation inducers reported to be useful for the treatment of acne, androgenic alopecia, hirsutism, metabolic disorders, breast cancer and prostate cancer.
China Pharmaceutical University and Chongqing Innovation Institute, China Pharmaceutical University have identified compounds acting as stimulator of interferon genes protein (STING; TMEM173) antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, fibrosis, infections, inflammation, autoimmune diseases, metabolic disorders, neurological disorders and cardiovascular disorders, among others.
Zhejiang Yangli Pharmaceutical Technology Co. Ltd. has synthesized thiazole-substituted pyrimidine amine compounds acting as CDK2/cyclin E1 inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Université de Montréal has disclosed GTPase KRAS G12D mutant inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, inflammatory disorders and immunological disorders.
Hypoxic pulmonary hypertension (HPH) is a condition characterized by increased pulmonary artery pressure caused by prolonged exposure to a hypoxic environment. It frequently occurs among individuals residing at high altitudes and those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Abilita Therapeutics Inc. has developed a novel approach targeting CCR8 – ABT-863 – that works as a potent inverse agonist to block CCL1-dependent and basal receptor signaling.
Vycellix Inc. has successfully completed preclinical development for its universal cell engineering platform (VY-UC) and will now seek clinical trial clearance in Sweden to begin a phase I study of VNK-101, an allogeneic natural killer (NK) cell therapy engineered with VY-UC for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.
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