Proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) compounds comprising an E3 ubiquitin ligase binding moiety covalently linked to non-receptor tyrosine-protein kinase TYK2-targeting moiety have been reported in a Kymera Therapeutics Inc. patent as potentially useful for the treatment of neurological, inflammatory and endocrine disorders, autoimmune diseases, transplant rejection, graft-vs.-host disease and cancer.
Exo Therapeutics Inc. has announced its lead program directed against TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. The company is now approaching identification of a development candidate for its lead program, an exosite-targeted compound that selectively reprograms the activity of TBK1 in the STING pathway that drives pathogenic signaling in diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, Aicardi-Goutières syndrome and others.
China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has given drug clinical trial approval for two new COVID-19 vaccines against the current XBB variants developed by Westvac Biopharma Co. Ltd. and West China Medical Center at Sichuan University.
Heightening prospects for an oral neutropenia therapy, X4 Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s lead CXCR4 antagonist mavorixafor slashed yearly infection rates in patients with WHIM syndrome by 58% in a pivotal phase III trial, an effect that was statistically significant.
Regulatory T-cell specialist Dualyx NV has closed a €40 million (US$43.5 million) series A to progress the lead autoimmune disease program to the clinic and to take forward two other Treg-based therapies. The company brings together expertise in antibody design with understanding of the role Tregs play in supressing the immune response to maintain homeostasis and self-tolerance, preventing autoimmunity.
Dualyx NV has completed a €40 million (US$44 million) series A financing, allowing the company to advance its lead autoimmune program, DT-001, as well as its pipeline of regulatory T-cell (Treg) candidates.
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