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eIF2B activator drug setback

FOCUS on drug failures. Denali Therapeutics‘ experimental drug for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) has taken another setback as the drug generated disappointing results in a phase

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PI3Kalpha inhibitor in the news

Focus on Drug Discovery. Lilly will acquire Scorpion Therapeutics’ PI3Kalpha inhibitor program which includes STX-478, a potentially best-in-class mutant-selective PI3Kα inhibitor currently being evaluated in a

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Neuroscience news

FOCUS on Reversal of Tau Pathology. In a January Communications Biology paper, Eric McGregor and coworkers showed that adiponectin receptor activation with the small molecule agonist,

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Ginger component alleviates gut inflammation

FOCUS on Bioactive Natural Products. In a February Nature Communications paper, Wang and coworkers showed that a sesquiterpenoid found abundantly in ginger, known as furanodienone, alleviated

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Tyrosine kinase drug approval

FOCUS on New Drug Approvals. Last Friday the FDA granted full approval of Deciphera’s Romvimza™ (Vimseltinib) for the treatment of symptomatic tenosynovial giant cell tumor (TGCT)

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MEK inhbitor drug approval

FOCUS on New Drug Approvals. Yesterday the FDA approved SpringWorks Therapeutics‘ Mirdametinib (PD-325901) for the treatment of patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 with symptomatic plexiform neurofibromas

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