Biocity Biopharmaceutics Co. Ltd.’s selective endothelin receptor type A antagonist, SC-0062, met the primary endpoint of reducing proteinuria in a phase II diabetic kidney disease cohort. Conducted at 40 sites across China, the 2-Succeed phase II trial is designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of SC-0062 in patients with chronic kidney disease with proteinuria.
A panel at Biocom California’s 15th Annual Global Life Science Partnering & Investor Conference covered the emerging use of artificial intelligence (AI) to discover and develop drugs. “We’re in a very different place than we were five years ago, or even three years ago, even two years ago, from our ability to harness AI to make advances,” Marc Tessier-Lavigne, CEO of South San Francisco-based Xaira Therapeutics Inc., told the audience, adding that the development is actually accelerating.
With the closing of its $350.7 million series D, Eikon Therapeutics Inc. has notched two financial high marks for the still young year. The funding is the biggest venture capital round of 2025 and it’s also the first series D.
HBM Alpha Therapeutics Inc. signed a potential $395 million licensing deal Feb. 26 with an unnamed “business partner” for its endocrine asset, HAT-001, adding another contender to the congenital adrenal hyperplasia space.
The U.S. Congress is turning its attention, once again, to bipartisan pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reforms, after efforts to rein in PBM practices died with the 118th Congress. With an eye on finally getting them passed, the House Energy and Commerce Committee kicked off the process with a Feb. 26 hearing that was supposed to be focused on the reform legislation the committee approved last year and follow-on legislation to rein in harmful PBM practices.
Whole genome sequencing has substantially accelerated the pace of discovery of genes that cause rare diseases, but while this has brought the diagnostic odyssey of some patients to a conclusion, 50% to 80% remain undiagnosed after initial analysis.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Formycon, Grin, Hyloris, Kashiv, Merck & Co., Mirum, Precigen, Sanofi.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Elixirgen, Eupraxia, Medicenna, Regeneron, Terns, Yoltech.
Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Carsgen, Eli Lilly, Hyloris, Infex, Kiniksa, Lava, Nimbus, Oncopeptides, Organovo, Redhill, Ucarsgen, Venus.
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