In their year-end list of top scientific achievements and the people who made them, both Science and Nature have included the fight against “the obesity epidemic.” Science named GLP-1 drugs as its Breakthrough of the Year, while Nature included Svetlana Mojsov in its 2023 list of the year’s most important investigators. Mojsov is research associate professor at The Rockefeller University and was an early contributor to understanding the metabolic role of GLP.
A team of researchers at Monash University, Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute and the University of Nebraska have prepared aryl hydantoin compounds for the treatment of schistosomiasis.
Fused pyrimidine compounds acting as menin (MEN1)/MLL interaction inhibitors have been described in a Biomea Fusion Inc. patent and reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, osteoporosis, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, among others.
Eli Lilly & Co. has patented new cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (MB21D1; cGAS) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome, dermatomyositis, systemic lupus erythematosus and lupus nephritis.
Aeovian Pharmaceuticals Inc. has disclosed new ADP-ribosyl cyclase/cyclic ADP-ribose hydrolase 1 (CD38) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
Ono Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has entered into a discovery collaboration agreement with Evqlv Inc. to generate novel antibodies against multiple targets selected by Ono, for the development of innovative antibody drugs.
Researchers from Sichuan University and Chengdu Normal University have reported the discovery of novel G9a/GLP covalent inhibitors for the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
Olix Pharmaceuticals Inc. has received approval from the Alfred Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) in Australia to conduct a phase I clinical trial of drug candidate OLX-75016 for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
PI3Kα H1047R accounts for one-third of all PI3Kα mutations and is associated with treatment resistance to targeted therapies in breast cancer treatment. In addition, treatment with selective PI3Kα inhibitors often results in significant adverse events such as hyperglycemia due to on-target toxicity.