Gilead Sciences Inc. is moving further into inflammatory diseases in a potential $1.7 billion deal with Leo Pharma A/S around a preclinical oral signal transduction and activator of transcription 6 (STAT6) program that the Danish dermatology specialist has been working on since 2018.
Gilead Sciences Inc. and Leo Pharma A/S have established a strategic partnership to accelerate the development and commercialization of Leo’s small-molecule oral STAT6 programs for the treatment of inflammatory diseases.
Lynk Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. has divulged non-receptor tyrosine-protein kinase TYK2 inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, immunological and inflammatory disorders.
Chengdu Zeling Biomedical Technology Co. Ltd. has identified compounds acting as NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, inflammatory, autoimmune, cardiovascular, renal, gastrointestinal, respiratory and neurological disorders.
China’s health regulator gave conditional approval to Platinum Life Excellence Biotech Co. Ltd.’s amimestrocel injection (hUC-MSC PLEB-001, Ruibosheng) as the nation’s first human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cell therapy to treat steroid-refractory acute graft-vs.-host disease on Jan. 2, 2025.
Scientists at Beigene Ltd. and Beigene Switzerland GmbH have divulged serine/threonine-protein kinase SIK inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
Researchers from Gazi University and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena presented the discovery and preclinical characterization of novel microsomal prostaglandin E2 synthase 1 (mPGES-1) inhibitors as potential anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug candidates.
Dimerix Ltd. and Fuso Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. signed a license agreement for the development and commercialization of Dimerix’s phase III candidate, DMX-200, for the treatment of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in Japan for ¥10.5 billion (US$66.5 million) plus royalties.
China’s health regulator gave conditional approval to Platinum Life Excellence Biotech Co. Ltd.’s amimestrocel injection (hUC-MSC PLEB-001, Ruibosheng) as the nation’s first human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cell therapy to treat steroid-refractory acute graft-vs.-host disease on Jan. 2, 2025.
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.