Obesity and chronic inflammation in the liver trigger the most severe form of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), steatohepatitis. Scientists at the University of Texas (UT) have shown how damaged hepatocytes accumulated in the liver after a vicious cycle of cytokine expression induced shedding of a critical liver receptor. Read More
Biocytogen Pharmaceuticals (Beijing) Co. Ltd. and Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Company Ltd. have established an antibody collaboration, assignment and exclusive license agreement. Biocytogen will provide a license to Hansoh Pharma for its selected fully human antibody molecules against a designated target for development, manufacturing and commercialization globally. Read More
Askgene Pharma Inc. has received FDA clearance of its IND application to start a phase I study of ASKG-915, a novel and proprietary anti-PD-1/IL-15 prodrug fusion molecule for the treatment of cancer. Read More
Lung cancer associated transcript 1 (LUCAT1) is a long noncoding RNA and has been identified as a negative feedback regulator of interferon I and inflammatory cytokine expression in myeloid cells; the anti-inflammatory protein nuclear receptor 4A2 (NR4A2) was identified as a LUCAT1-binding protein involved in regulating splicing and processing of mRNAs. NR4A2 inhibits the inflammatory process driven by NF-κB. It was observed that cells lacking LUCAT1 expression had their splicing of immune genes altered, with reduced expression of NR4A2 (altered splicing on exon 7) in those cells lacking LUCAT1, as shown by ChIRP-MS assay in THP-1 cells. Read More
Genentech Inc. has disclosed 2,8-diazaspiro [4.5] decane compounds acting as serine/threonine-protein kinase LATS1 and/or LATS2 inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Read More
Oncoprotein Myc is known to be dysregulated in about 70% of cancers, and it is highly expressed in leukemias and lymphomas. Targeting Myc has not been successful and is still an unmet clinical need for cancer patients. Read More
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India) has synthesized substituted tricyclic heterocyclic compounds acting as β-lactamase IMP-1 (bacterial) and/or New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) (bacterial) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of bacterial infections. Read More
Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co. Ltd. and Shanghai Senhui Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. have identified pyridine compounds acting as HIV integrase inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of HIV infections. Read More
Non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) originate from a clonal expansion of B cells (85%), T cells/NK cells (15%) or macrophages (~1%) due to an accumulation of genetic lesions in tumor suppressor genes. Approximately 82,000 new cases of NHL were diagnosed in 2021. Read More
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. has divulged N-(hydroxyalkyl (hetero)aryl) tetrahydrofuran carboxamides acting as sodium channel protein type 10 subunit α (SCN10A; Nav1.8) blockers reported to be useful for the treatment of pain, arrhythmia, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, cough, urinary incontinence and multiple sclerosis. Read More
Jiangsu Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. has described proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) comprising of E3 ubiquitin ligase cereblon (CRBN) binding moiety covalently linked to a Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) binding moiety through a linker. They are reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Read More
The most common cause of anemia in chronically ill hospitalized patients is due to inflammatory anemia (IA) that is caused indirectly by diseases such as autoimmune, cancer, chronic kidney disease, congestive heart failure, or pulmonary disease. The precise and common etiology of these diseases involves hypercytokinemia that leads to excessive increases in hepcidin, a master regulator of iron homeostasis that blocks intestinal iron absorption when levels are too persistently high. Read More
