Emerging Company Profile: The US biotech acquired its sole asset from CDMO Vectura in 2020 and is now gearing up for a Phase II proof-of-concept trial in severe asthma to help address the unmet need in non-eosinophilic patients.
Kinaset’s lead candidate, KN-002, is a pan-JAK inhibitor for severe asthma and COPD.
Kinaset Therapeutics, Inc. is on a mission to create a convenient, inhaled treatment for severe asthma for use across the spectrum of disease phenotypes, including the insufficiently addressed non-eosinophilic subgroup.
The firm’s roots can be traced back to the 2019 transition of former drug development firm Vectura Group plc...
Merck’s immuno-oncology blockbuster was the world’s best-selling drugs by revenues for the second year in a row, with an almost $12bn lead over its closest rival, Novo Nordisk’s GLP-1 drug Ozempic.
Emerging Company Profile: Backed by Flagship Pioneering, Empress deploys its Chemilogics platform to seek leads for small molecule therapies in inflammation, immunology, cancer and metabolic disease.
Emerging Company Profile: Efficacy data on the young group’s first pH-engineered antibody-drug conjugate could come next year, and potential partners will be watching.
Emerging Company Profile: The eight-year-old vaccine firm is planning clinical trials in the Philippines and Brazil to see how its synthetic viral peptide vaccine technology stands up against coronaviruses and dengue fever.
The start-up launched last year with Phase III-ready upacicalcet, which has nearly completed two pivotal trials in secondary hyperparathyroidism and for which it has exclusive rights outside of Asia.
Emerging Company Profile: Backed by Flagship Pioneering, Empress deploys its Chemilogics platform to seek leads for small molecule therapies in inflammation, immunology, cancer and metabolic disease.
Discontinuation of the AML study created concern about potential readthrough to a pivotal MDS trial, but the company and analysts pointed out differences in the diseases.
