March 23, 2023

Eltrombopag inhibits autophagy

Journal Club: In a paper just out in PNAS, Y. Lin and coworkers showed that Eltrombopag, an FDA-approved drug for thrombocytopenia, inhibits autophagy by targeting the […]
September 15, 2022

Inducing Autophagy Against Mycobacterial Infection

Activation of autophagy is a novel mode of therapeutic intervention and offers the possibility of developing new “host-directed” therapeutics against mycobacterial infection. For example, Kim et […]