Pharma Foods International Co. Ltd. (PFI) has announced the achievement of a milestone under its licensing agreement with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. for a new investigational therapeutic antibody for autoimmune diseases.
The generation of anti-citrullinated protein autoantibodies (ACPA) are known key drivers in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and are generated by peptidyl arginine deiminases (PADs).
Oblique Therapeutics AB has entered into an agreement with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology to utilize KTH’s supercomputer resources for analyzing protein structures.
Abbvie Inc. and Futuregen Biopharmaceutical (Beijing) Co. Ltd. have signed a license agreement to develop FG-M701, a next-generation TL1A antibody for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.
Hudson Therapeutics Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Shaperon Inc., has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Shaperon and Dong-A ST Co. Ltd. for the development of nanobody-based new drugs.
Alchemab Therapeutics Ltd. has been awarded a grant of $595,000 by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) to support its Parkinson’s disease program.
Exevir Bio BV has demonstrated that its antibodies are potent in neutralizing the SARS-CoV-2 variant JN.1, the parental strain of the currently most dominantly circulating variants worldwide.
Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) is among the immune checkpoint molecules better explored in immunotherapy for cancer. However, it is necessary to obtain novel therapies where preclinical efficacy and safety data could translate into enhanced predictability of human efficacy, pharmacokinetics and side effects.