Neurosciences specialist NRG Therapeutics Ltd. is poised to put its new class of small-molecule regulators of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore to the test after closing an oversubscribed £50 million (US$67 million) series B. Read More
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a rare, progressive genetic disease that causes severe muscle weakness and other debilitating symptoms, such as compromised respiration and cardiac conduction abnormalities. No disease-modifying therapy exists for DM1, so care focuses on managing symptoms like arrhythmia, myotonia, hypertension, cataracts, respiratory issues and sleep disorders. Read More
Neuronos Ltd., a subsidiary of Beyond Air Inc., has announced the granting of orphan drug designation by the FDA to BA-101 for the treatment of glioblastoma (GBM). The company is advancing development of BA-101 toward first-in-human studies. Read More
At the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) in Seattle, researchers from Ashibio Inc. reported preclinical efficacy data on vantictumab, a human monoclonal IgG2 lambda antibody that binds to multiple frizzled (FZD) receptors. Read More
A Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical Corp. patent describes new poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP-1; ARTD1) inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, graft-vs.-host disease, systemic lupus erythematosus and osteoarthritis, among others. Read More
Remedium Bio Inc. has entered into a multitarget research and development collaboration with Eli Lilly & Co. to advance gene therapies for type 2 diabetes and obesity using Remedium’s Prometheus dose-adjustable gene therapy platform. Read More
Tolerance Bio Inc. and Zipcode Bio have established a strategic research and development collaboration aimed at pioneering novel delivery methods for targeted thymus therapeutics. Read More
Recurium IP Holdings LLC has patented new Wee1-like protein kinase (Wee1) inhibitors and/or degradation inducers reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer. Read More
Oregon Health & Science University and Washington University have jointly developed new tetrahydrobenzothiophene and tetrahydropyridothiophene derivatives reported to be useful for the treatment of flavivirus and alphavirus infections. Read More
The envelope (E) proteins of Zika virus (ZIKV) and dengue virus (DENV) present a high degree of homology, which can lead to cross-reactive antibodies that exacerbate disease through antibody-dependent enhancement. This enormously challenges the development of effective ZIKV vaccines. Read More
Work at Blacksmith Medicines Inc. has led to the identification of new bacterial UDP-3-O-(R-3-hydroxymyristoyl)-N-acetylglucosamine deacetylase (LpxC) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection, lung diseases and infectious pneumonia. Read More
Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry and the University of Michigan have prepared and tested new cyclin-dependent kinase 12 (CDK12) and 13 (CDK13) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer. Read More
Immunoglobulin superfamily 11 (IgSF11) overexpression has been observed in several cancer types, including gastric cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, colorectal cancers and gliomas, and linked to aggressive clinicopathological features. Therefore, IgSF11 has been proposed as a novel immune checkpoint ligand and a candidate for cancer immunotherapy. However, the potential role and clinical significance of IgSF11 in human breast cancer remain unexplored. Read More
