At the 2024 Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Diseases Conference this week, Michel Goedert from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge gave the Donald L. Price Memorial Plenary Lecture entitled, “Cryo-EM structures of disease filaments from human brains.” Donald Price was particularly well-known for his work on plaques and tangles in nonhuman aged primate brains and for the development of several animal models of neurodegenerative diseases. Read More
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease characterized by the death of motor neurons in conjunction with neuroinflammation and deposition of protein aggregates, such as TDP-43, in these neurons and oligodendrocytes. Progranulin is a growth factor that is essential for neuron survival and a regulator of anti-inflammatory responses. Read More
Solid Biosciences Inc. has announced a nonexclusive worldwide license and collaboration agreement with Armatus Bio Inc. for the use of Solid’s proprietary capsid AAV-SLB101 for the development and commercialization of Armatus’ vectorized RNAi candidate to treat facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Read More
Since microglia play a critical role in resolving amyloid pathology and it has been previously demonstrated that microglia function can be induced by TREM2 activation, TREM2 agonism has been considered a promising novel therapeutic approach to delay or prevent the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Read More
Researchers from Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College presented preclinical data for the new pan-peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) agonist, E-17241, being developed for the treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Read More
Satellos Bioscience Inc. recently presented preclinical data for the novel oral small-molecule AP2-associated protein kinase 1 (AAK1) inhibitor SAT-3247, being developed for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other muscle degenerative diseases, at the Muscular Dystrophy Association conference. Read More
Enanta Pharmaceuticals Inc. has disclosed new fused heterobicyclic derivatives reported to be useful for the treatment of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis D virus (HDV) infections. Read More
A Beijing Danatlas Pharmaceutical Technology Co. Ltd. patent describes tricyclic heterocyclic derivatives acting as membrane-associated tyrosine- and threonine-specific Cdc2-inhibitory kinase (PKMYT1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer. Read More
Ajax Therapeutics Inc. has synthesized heterocyclic amide and urea compounds acting as tyrosine-protein kinase JAK2 inhibitors and thus reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and myelofibrosis. Read More
Autophagy of cancer cells has been frequently observed during radiotherapy. In addition, pancreatic cancer-associated fibroblasts can compromise the radiotherapeutic effect by promoting the autophagy of the irradiated pancreatic cancer cells. Read More
Work at Bellbrook Labs LLC has led to the identification of cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (MB21D1; cGAS) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. Read More
Insilico Medicine Inc. has patented new cyclin-dependent kinase 12 (CDK12)/cyclin K and/or CDK13 inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, particularly triple-negative breast cancer. Read More
Previous research found that p62 is the key autophagy adapter protein and a hub of multicellular signaling involved in different physiological and pathological processes. Read More
