Cell and gene therapy companies are the beneficiaries of positive changes along the regulatory path that the U.S. FDA is paving for them, according to a panel of executives who spoke at the BioFuture 2024 conference in New York. The agency is trying to set up cell and gene companies for success and that’s a very different agency than what it was years ago, said Paul Bresge, CEO of Ray Therapeutics Inc.
While the size of the market is enormous, drug development and treatments for women’s health care still lag behind what is offered for men. There has been a renaissance in the past few years, however, led by investors and companies that have wrestled with determining exactly what encompasses women’s health and how to meet its challenges.
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. have patented tricyclic compounds acting as UDP-2,3-diacylglucosamine hydrolase (LpxH) (bacterial) inhibitors and thus reported to be useful for the treatment of gram-negative bacterial infections.
Gastric inhibitory polypeptide receptor (GIPR) antagonists potentially useful for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity have been disclosed in a Pfizer Inc. patent.
Cyrus Therapeutics Inc. has designed molecular glue degraders comprising a cereblon (CRBN)-binding moiety acting as eukaryotic peptide chain release factor GTP-binding subunit ERF3A (GSPT1) degradation inducers potentially useful for the treatment of cancer.
Dice Alpha Inc. has prepared and tested substituted 6-imidazopyridazine IL-17A modulators potentially useful for the treatment of psoriasis, radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (ankylosing spondylitis), hidradenitis suppurativa, spondyloarthritis, psoriatic and rheumatoid arthritis.
Nuclear medicine combines structural and functional imaging, thus detecting lesions earlier than traditional methodologies. CD147 is a transmembrane glycoprotein that is expressed at very low levels in normal tissues, but significantly overexpressed in tumoral tissues, and is tied to clinical outcome and immune infiltration in cancer.
Understanding the mechanisms that drive the transition from an inflammatory to a proliferative phase during wound healing can aid in developing novel strategies for enhanced tissue repair. Keratinocytes, by undergoing reprogrammed gene expression, play crucial roles in both the inflammatory and proliferative phases of wound healing.