Alesta Therapeutics BV has closed an oversubscribed €65 million (US$67 million) series A financing round designed to support development of its two small-molecule therapeutics.
Celmatix Therapeutics (Celmatix Inc.) has announced a new drug program for endometriosis, with the development of a novel Jun-N-terminal kinase (JNK) inhibitor that targets pain and inflammation. The company’s aim to focus on JNK inhibitors with greater specificity for JNK1 and JNK3 than for JNK2 led it to license lead compounds from Baylor College of Medicine.
Candid Therapeutics Inc. has entered into an agreement with Wuxi Biologics Co. Ltd. under which Candid will have exclusive global rights to a preclinical trispecific T-cell engager discovered by Wuxi’s universal multispecific antibody platform, Wuxibody.
Ibio Inc. has expanded its cardiometabolic and obesity treatment development program by in-licensing a long-acting anti-myostatin antibody from Astralbio Inc. The antibody, now named IBIO-600, was identified by Astralbio using Ibio’s proprietary technology stack.
Innovent Biologics Inc. has entered into a collaboration and exclusive license agreement with F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. to advance the development of IBI-3009, a novel DLL3-targeted antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) candidate.
Hoth Therapeutics Inc. has entered into an exclusive patent license agreement with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), providing Hoth with exclusive rights to a jointly owned patent portfolio co-developed by the VA and Emory University.
Xentria Inc. has entered into an exclusive license agreement with New York University (NYU) securing Xentria exclusive rights related to the development of a potential disease-modifying therapeutic for cardiovascular disease.
Bioarctic AB has entered into a global exclusive license agreement with Bristol Myers Squibb Co. for Bioarctic’s pyroglutamate-amyloid-β (Aβ) antibody program.
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