Is there a link between cellular senescence and multiple sclerosis (MS) progression? Several presentations at this year’s European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis 2025 (ECTRIMS 2025) conference, which ends today in Barcelona, addressed this question. Read More
About five months after the U.S. FDA disclosed its roadmap to move away from animal testing in favor of new approaches for biopharma drug development, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) said it is awarding $87 million in contracts over three years to launch the Standardized Organoid Modeling Center. Read More
Tiziana Life Sciences Ltd. has announced plans to advance its second asset, a fully human anti-IL-6 receptor (IL-6R) monoclonal antibody, TZLS-501. Read More
The Scripps Research Institute has disclosed peptides and their drug conjugates acting as dual gastric inhibitory polypeptide receptor (GIPR) and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of diabetes, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and obesity. Read More
Researchers from Novartis AG reported preclinical efficacy data on VHB-937, an agonist human monoclonal antibody targeting TREM2 in models of neuroinflammation. Read More
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG has advanced a novel T-cell engager resulting from a collaboration with Numab Therapeutics AG into preclinical development for the treatment of lung and gastrointestinal cancers. Read More
Hager Biosciences LLC has identified orexin receptor and/or κ-opioid receptor dual antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, psychiatric, neurological and cardiovascular disorders. Read More
Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery remains the gold standard treatment for patients with severe atherosclerosis, but the long-term failure of the grafted veins is a persistent challenge. Excessive vascular smooth muscle cell (vSMC) proliferation in the grafted tissue, promoted by the increased exposure of vSMCs to pro-inflammatory mediators and cytokines, is a key driver of late CABG failure. A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh and collaborators previously identified a human-specific long noncoding RNA, named SMILR, that is enriched in vSMC and promotes its proliferation. Read More
Shattuck Labs Inc. has divulged oligopeptides acting as E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase TRIM7 (GNIP; RNF90) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, infections and inflammatory disorders. Read More
Ileadbms Co. Ltd. has described son of sevenless homolog 1 (SOS1)/GTPase KRAS G12D mutant interaction and SOS1/GTPase KRAS G12C mutant interaction inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, arteriovenous malformations, cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome, Costello syndrome and more. Read More
Renal cell carcinoma accounts for approximately 90% of kidney cancers, and current treatments fail to prevent metastasis in up to 40% of patients. Potentially effective is immunotherapy based on CAR T cells that recognize CD70, which is little expressed in normal tissues but is expressed in more than 80% of renal cell carcinomas. However, such CAR T immunotherapy has so far not shown overwhelming success against renal cell carcinoma, and the therapeutic cells must be derived for each patient individually. Read More
