To Steve Hyman, the manual that clinicians currently use to diagnose mental disorders is an active obstacle to getting a scientific understanding of those disorders. Hyman, who is director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, MIT and Harvard, and a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), listed multiple weaknesses of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), whose diagnoses, he said, are “arbitrary, rigid, life-stage and context-insensitive,” as well as blind to the fact that mental disorders exist along a continuum. Read More
LX-101 from Lirum Therapeutics Inc. is an insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF-1R) inhibitor consisting of an IGF-1 variant coupled to a cytotoxic methotrexate payload. There are several aggressive cancer types of unmet need that have altered IGF-1R pathways and/or high IGF-1R expression, which correlates with poor prognosis. Read More
At the ongoing ACS meeting in New Orleans, Rezubio Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. detailed the discovery and preclinical evaluation of novel small-molecule gut-restricted GPR40 agonists using membrane-anchored drug (MADD) design. Read More
Aska Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Aska Pharmaceutical Holdings Co. Ltd., and Red Arrow Therapeutics Inc. have signed a joint research agreement to develop a new treatment for preeclampsia using advanced nanotechnology. Read More
For the treatment of HIV infection, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) are used to prevent viral replication by binding to a pocket near the polymerase active site of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. Read More
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Arizona presented the discovery and preclinical evaluation of a novel BD1-selective BET inhibitor, XL-126, being developed as a potential anti-inflammatory agent. Read More
Erasca Inc. has disclosed proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) compounds comprising an E3 ubiquitin ligase-binding moiety covalently linked to a GTPase KRAS G12D mutant targeting moiety through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer. Read More
CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. has received clearance from China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to conduct clinical trials in China with SYH-2039, a highly selective methionine adenosyltransferase 2A (MAT2A) inhibitor, for advanced malignant tumors. Read More
Scientists at Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co. Ltd. and Shanghai Hengrui Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. have identified sodium channel protein type 10 subunit α (Nav1.8) channel blockers reported to be useful for the treatment of treatment of pain, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, urinary incontinence, multiple sclerosis and arrhythmia. Read More
Samsung Life Science Fund, created jointly between Samsung Biologics Co. Ltd., Samsung Bioepis Co. Ltd. and Samsung C&T, and managed by Samsung Venture Investment Corp., and Brickbio Inc. have announced Samsung’s investment in preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Brickbio. Read More
Jacobio Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. has divulged cellular tumor antigen p53 (TP53) (Y220C mutant) stabilizers reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer. Read More
Redx Pharma plc has described discoidin domain-containing receptor 1 (DDR1) and/or discoidin domain-containing receptor 2 (DDR2) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cardiovascular, renal, inflammatory disorders, liver diseases, fibrosis, transplant rejection and cancer. Read More
In efforts to design microtubule polymerization inhibitors with the ability to induce immunogenic cell death (ICD), investigators from China Pharmaceutical University have discovered novel isoquinoline analogues based on podophyllotoxin and diphyllin that act as dual tubulin polymerization and V-ATPase inhibitors. Read More
