ALBANY, N.Y. & SHANGHAI, China — Drug Farm, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company advancing two novel small molecule drugs for ROSAH syndrome and hepatitis B, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to DF-003, its investigational, first-in-class ALPK1 inhibitor, for the treatment of...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Biogen Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB) – announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation for litifilimab (BIIB059) for the treatment of cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE). Litifilimab is a first in-class, humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody (mAb) targeting blood dendritic cell antigen 2 (BDCA2)....

Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany – Boehringer Ingelheim today announced results from a 12-week Phase II clinical trial evaluating apecotrep (BI 764198), an oral, potential first-in-class, non-immunosuppressive TRPC6 inhibitor for people with primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). Apecotrep reduced proteinuria, a key indicator associated with kidney damage, by 40% in the...