Genescience Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. has identified melanocortin MC4 receptor antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of cachexia, anorexia nervosa, nausea and vomiting, sarcopenia, neuropathic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder and muscle and bone disorders.
Just as it is for terminally ill cancer patients, time is of the essence for people in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Thus, the clinical meaningfulness of Eli Lilly and Co.’s donanemab is the time it gives patients before the disease progresses, Reisa Sperling, a neurology professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, told the U.S. FDA’s Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee June 10.
Samsara Therapeutics Inc. has described autophagy inducers reported to be useful for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease.
Following a phase II/III failure, Stamford, Conn.-based Cara Therapeutics Inc. discontinued its only pipeline program, that of oral difelikefalin for moderate to severe pruritis in adults with notalgia paresthetica, placing the company’s future in question.
Omniscient Neurotechnology Ltd. closed a $60 million series C fundraising round to expand its reach in the U.S. market for its Quicktome platform that leverages AI to convert a standard MRI scan into a detailed map of an individual’s brain networks.
Variants in several subunits of the Mediator protein complex are responsible for MEDopathies, which present variable clinical manifestations and modes of inheritance. Researchers from Université de Paris Cité have investigated the role of MED16, a subunit of the evolutionary-conserved Mediator complex, in MEDopathies.
Evercore ISI analyst Umer Raffat recently called orexin a “red hot neuropsychiatry target,” and the recent Sleep 2024 meeting in Houston bolstered such a view. Also known as hypocretin, the neuropeptide orexin is known to play a crucial role in regulating wakefulness, arousal, and appetite. It’s made in the hypothalamus, and was discovered in the late 1990s. Investigators found that people with narcolepsy can show a deficiency of orexin due to the loss of neurons.
Neuron23 Inc. has synthesized leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2; dardarin) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.
Evotec SE has announced scientific progress within its neuroscience collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb Co., with a target-based program now advancing into late preclinical development. This milestone triggers a research payment of $20 million to Evotec.
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