Tag Archives: inflammatory disorders

July, 2017

24 July
Lilly Partners with Nektar for Development of its Autoimmune Candidate NKTR-358

INDIANAPOLIS and SAN FRANCISCO, July 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NKTR) have announced a strategic collaboration to co-develop NKTR-358, a novel immunological therapy discovered by Nektar. NKTR-358, which achieved first human dose in Phase 1 clinical development in March of 2017, …
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11 May
PureTech Launches Alivio Therapeutics for Novel Approach for Treating Inflammatory Disease

BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PureTech Health plc (“PureTech,” LSE: PRTC), a cross-disciplinary healthcare company tackling fundamental healthcare needs, today announces the launch of Alivio Therapeutics, which is developing a novel technology for the targeted treatment of inflammatory disorders. The technology is based on an innovative hydrogel material that is designed to adhere to …
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27 April
AstraZeneca Sells Ironwood US Rights to its Gout Drug Zurampic

26 April 2016 AstraZeneca today announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with Ironwood Pharmaceuticals for the exclusive US rights to Zurampic® (lesinurad). Zurampic was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December 2015, in combination with a xanthine oxidase inhibitor (XOI), for the treatment …
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22 January
MannKind Licenses Technology to Receptor Life Sciences

VALENCIA, Calif., Jan. 21, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MannKind Corporation (Nasdaq:MNKD) (TASE:MNKD) today announced that it has entered into a collaboration and license agreement with a newly formed entity, Receptor Life Sciences, Inc., pursuant to which multiple inhaled therapeutic products will be developed to explore their potential to treat conditions …
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6 January
ChemoCentryx Rare Disease Drug as Effective as Standard of Care in Mid-Stage Study

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 06, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ChemoCentryx, Inc., (Nasdaq:CCXI), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing orally-administered therapeutics to treat autoimmune diseases, inflammatory disorders, and cancer, today announced positive top-line data from its’ Phase II CLEAR trial with CCX168 in patients with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) -associated vasculitis, or …
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7 December
Morphotek Announces Early-Stage Results from its Rheumatoid Arthritis Study

EXTON, Pa., Dec. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Morphotek®, Inc., a subsidiary of Eisai Inc., announced today results from Study MORAb-022-001, a single-dose, dose-ascending, placebo-controlled, Phase 1 trial evaluating the safety and tolerability of its investigational, anti-GM-CSF, monoclonal antibody, MORAb-022 in healthy subjects (n=26) and mild-to-moderate Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients (n=25). In this …
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