Enlaza Therapeutics Inc. will take charge of research through nominating candidates in its potentially $2 billion-plus deal with Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. For its efforts, Enlaza is getting $45 million in an up-front payment and equity investment, plus the opportunity to bring in more than $2 billion in research, development, regulatory and commercial milestones and tiered royalties on net sales. Read More
In an effort to exploit the advantages of therapeutic bacteria and viruses while avoiding their disadvantages, researchers at Columbia and Rockefeller Universities have developed an anticancer platform called CAPPSID (Coordinated Activity of Prokaryote and Picornavirus for Safe Intracellular Delivery). Read More
Jynneos, a current vaccine against orthopoxviruses such as smallpox and mpox virus, elicits only modest antibody responses, highlighting the need to search for more immunogenic vaccines or treatments. The global outbreak of mpox virus infections in 2022 lent urgency to this challenge. Read More
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced a global licensing and collaboration agreement with Novartis AG for ARO-SNCA, Arrowhead’s preclinical stage siRNA therapy for the treatment of synucleinopathies such as Parkinson’s disease, and for additional targets. Read More
Vyriad Inc. and Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd., the commercial arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science, have signed an exclusive license agreement for a novel viral vector targeting approach. Read More
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles and collaborators have analyzed what cell types are infected by hantaviruses and how infection alters gene expression. Read More
Shanghai Shenshi Wise Technology Co. Ltd. has disclosed potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily A member 3 (KCNA3; Kv1.3) blockers reported to be useful for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, kidney fibrosis, type 2 diabetes and more. Read More
Avenzo Therapeutics Inc. has obtained IND clearance by the FDA for AVZO-103 (formerly VAC-103), a nectin-4/TROP2 bispecific antibody-drug conjugate (ADC). Read More
Researchers have identified a potential therapeutic target for muscular dystrophies, a group of genetic disorders characterized by progressive muscle weakness and degeneration. The study reveals that inhibiting the microRNA (miRNA) known as miRNA-33 can significantly improve muscle regeneration and ameliorate the dystrophic phenotype in animal models. Read More
Aconcagua Bio Inc. has synthesized calcitonin receptor (CALCR; CT-R) and amylin receptor agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of pain, neurodegeneration, metabolic diseases, bone disease, periodontal disease, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease MASLD), osteogenesis imperfecta and cardiovascular disorders, among others. Read More
Aligos Therapeutics Inc. has identified programmed cell death 1 (PDCD1; PD-1; CD279)/PD-1 ligand 1 (PD-L1; CD274) interaction inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) and hepatitis B (HBV). Read More
Neucore Bio Inc. has received a $350,000 STTR phase I grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to evaluate the company’s targeted exosome platform to deliver an RNA-based therapy to treat Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1a (CMT1A). Read More
Anima Biotech Inc. has divulged collagen 1 (COL1) translation inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cirrhosis, fibrosis, nonalcoholic or metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (NASH/MASH), alcoholic fatty liver and autoimmune diseases. Read More
Aglaeapharma Inc. has described compounds acting as α2-adrenoceptor agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of rhinitis, pain, insomnia, inflammatory disorders, glaucoma, cancer, anesthesia and acute kidney injury, among others. Read More
The regulation of type I interferon (IFN-1) signaling is crucial for fine-tuning the innate immune response to combat pathogens, fight cancer and prevent autoimmune diseases. Disrupted IFN-1 signaling plays a key role in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Therefore, understanding how IFN-1 production and signaling are regulated could reveal new approaches for treating conditions driven by this pathway.
