The FDA decision for Travere Therapeutics’ Filspari also expands its addressable patient population. The full approval comes nearly a year after the Travere drug narrowly missed the main goal of its confirmatory study.
Autobahn Therapeutics’ platform technology enables small molecules to selectively hit targets in the brain. In addition to a lead program ready for Phase 2 testing in two types of depression, the startup has a preclinical molecule with potential applications in neuroinflammatory disorders such as multiple sclerosis.
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Lupus is the lead autoimmune indication for Artiva Biotherapeutics, which has an early-stage clinical trial underway. Artiva’s allogeneic cell therapies are based on natural killer cells.
Avidity Biosciences’ RNA therapy for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy has preliminary clinical data showing it knocked down expression of a gene that causes this rare disease. More details will be presented at a medical conference this week.
Skye Bioscience’s nimacimab blocks CB1, the same receptor targeted by an obesity drug candidate now in the hands of Novo Nordisk. But Skye contends its Phase 2-ready antibody drug has several advantages over the small molecule that joined Novo’s pipeline in a deal valued at $1 billion.
Novo Nordisk’s focus on diabetes and obesity shape its business development work, but the company is also exploring other areas. Top Novo Nordisk M&A executive John McDonald discussed his company’s strategy during a session at the BIO conference in San Diego.
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ImmunityBio therapy Anktiva is now FDA approved for treating patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. The novel immunotherapy works by sparking activity from three types of immune cells.
Cancer drug developer Boundless Bio is a pioneer in therapies that target extrachromosomal DNA. The IPO cash will support its pipeline, including a lead program on track to report preliminary data later this year.
Mirador Therapeutics applies machine learning to human data to discover new immunology and inflammation drugs. The startup’s management includes several from the executive team of Prometheus Biosciences, an immunology biotech bought by Merck last year.
Contineum Therapeutics, which emerged from a Verant Ventures startup creation engine, has filed paperwork for an IPO. The biotech’s clinical-stage pipeline spans multiple sclerosis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and depression.
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With pimavanserin's Phase 3 failure in schizophrenia, Acadia Pharmaceuticals said it will no longer run clinical trials for the drug, whose lone approval is for treating psychosis from Parkinson's disease. The FDA previously rebuffed regulatory submissions for the drug in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
A Janux Therapeutics T cell engager has early clinical data showing improvement in cases of advanced prostate cancer, validating the technology platform that produced the therapy. Janux is now leveraging its soaring stock price to raise $175 million in a stock offering.
The weight loss achieved by Viking Therapeutics’ obesity drug tops results posted by Eli Lilly’s Zepbound in its pivotal test. But Viking still needs to show its results can hold up in a larger Phase 3 clinical trial.
Startup TrX1 develops cell therapies that function like a particular type of regulatory T cell, or Treg, whose role includes dampening inflammation and inducing long-term tolerance. Based on research from Stanford, TrX1’s lead program is a potential therapy for preventing graft-versus-host disease.
Galapagos is a latecomer to CAR T-therapy, but the drugmaker hopes its technology for producing cell therapies at a clinical site will help it stand out. Galapagos has encouraging preliminary data from two early-stage programs and it just begun Phase 1/2 testing of its third cancer cell therapy.