Kbio Inc. has obtained IND clearance from the FDA for EV68-228-N, a human monoclonal IgG1 against the capsid of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) designed as an intravenous therapeutic for the treatment of acute flaccid myelitis.
Circle Pharma Inc. has submitted an IND application to the FDA for CID-078, a first-in-class cyclin A/B RxL inhibitor. Pending approval, the company plans to initiate a phase I trial in patients with advanced solid tumor malignancies.
Biolexis Therapeutics Inc. is working on developing orally available, small-molecule AMPK activators that have been found to stimulate AMPK activity as well as dose-dependently enhance glucose uptake in human tissue.
Snipr Biome ApS has received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a microbiome-directed intervention designed to improve environmental enteric dysfunction by reducing gut entero-pathogen burden in pregnant women from low- and middle-income countries.
SCG Cell Therapy Pte Ltd. has gained FDA clearance of its IND application to initiate a phase I/II trial of SCG-142, a novel next-generation human papillomavirus (HPV) E7-specific T-cell receptor-engineered T (TCR T)-cell therapy for patients with HPV-associated solid tumors.
MTX-101 (Mozart Therapeutics Inc.) is a bispecific CD8 Treg modulator that targets CD8 and the KIR2DL family, including KIR2DL1, KIR2DL2 and KIR2DL3, and is being developed for the treatment of CD4-driven autoimmunity and restoring immune balance.
Waypoint Bio has raised $14.5 million in seed funding to support its work pioneering novel cell therapies for solid tumors using in vivo spatial pooled screening technology.
Biomed Industries Inc. has presented data on its IGF-1/GLP-1/GIP/GCGR quadruple agonist NA-931 for the treatment of obesity and metabolic disorders. The company has discovered a family of IGF-1 metabolites, known as NA-931, and its analogues NA-932 and NA-933, which are referred to as NA-931 compounds.
“Do dreams predict the future?” Abidemi Otaiku asked his audience at the 10th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology, currently being held in Helsinki. Most audience members, being hard-boiled scientists, did not believe they did. But Otaiku, whose work won the award for best clinical abstract at the conference, presented data indicating that in some cases, they can.
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