April 16, 2026

Sildenafil and Neurodegeneration

FOCUS on Mitochondrial Disease. Leigh syndrome (LS) is a mitochondrial disease characterized by neurodevelopmental regression and muscle weakness with early death following metabolic crises. In a […]
April 14, 2026

Visit Focus Biomolecules at AACR

Focus Biomolecules will be exhibiting at the annual meeting of American Association for Cancer Research in San Diego, April 19 – 22. Stop by our booth […]
March 12, 2026

Raf kinase drug success

FOCUS on a New Pharma Success Story. Day One Biopharmaceuticals is only 8 years old, yet in that short period of time it bought the rights […]
March 4, 2026

Visit Focus Biomolecules at ASBMB

Focus Biomolecules will be exhibiting at the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology near Washington, DC, March 7 – 10. Stop […]
March 4, 2026

B-Raf inhibitor for colorectal cancer

FOCUS on new drug approvals. On February 24th the FDA granted approval to Encorafenib (Braftovi, Array Biopharma, a subsidiary of Pfizer) in combination with cetuximab and […]
February 27, 2026

AACR Travel Grants Available

Will you be attending the AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) Annual Meeting 2026 in San Diego this April? Focus Biomolecules will be awarding two travel […]
February 19, 2026

PDE4 inhibitor for atopic dermatitis

FOCUS on new drug approvals. On February 12th the FDA granted approval for Acrotech Biopharma’s Difamilast (Adquey) for mild to moderate atopic dermatitis. The approval marks […]
February 13, 2026

Maraviroc as glioblastoma treatment

FOCUS on Drug Repurposing. A study just published in Neuron suggests the HIV drug Maraviroc (a CCR5 antagonist) may be useful for the treatment of glioblastoma […]
February 11, 2026

USP25 inhibition ameliorates Parkinson’s disease

FOCUS on Parkinson’s Disease: Y Xu and coworkers identified deubiquitinating enzyme USP25 as a susceptible locus for PD as just reported in PNAS. They showed that USP25 […]