GUILFORD, Conn. & SHANGHAI, China – Drug Farm announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Investigational New Drug (IND) application of DF-003, a first-in-class, oral, potent, highly selective alpha-kinase 1 (ALPK1) inhibitor for clinical evaluation in ROSAH syndrome patients. The trial will assess the safety,...
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ALBANY, N.Y. & SHANGHAI, China — Drug Farm today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) to DF-003, the company’s investigational small molecule inhibitor targeting ALPK1, for the treatment of patients with ROSAH syndrome, a rare, genetically driven systemic autoinflammatory disease with...
GUILFORD, Conn. — Drug Farm, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Rare Pediatric Disease (RPD) Designation for the company’s alpha-kinase 1 (ALPK1) inhibitor, DF-003, to treat patients with ROSAH (retinal dystrophy, optic nerve edema, splenomegaly, anhidrosis and headache ) Syndrome. DF-003...
ALBANY, N.Y. & SHANGHAI, China — Drug Farm today announced that preliminary immunologic and clinical results from its Phase 1b study of DF-003, a first-in-class oral ALPK1 inhibitor, will be presented in a podium session at IMMUNOLOGY2026, taking place April 15–19, 2026, in Boston, Massachusetts. The presentation will highlight early...
San Antonio, Texas – A drug effective in treating breast cancer shows new promise in addressing breast cancer with brain metastases or recurrent glioblastoma, as reported by results of a prospective window-of-opportunity trial at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio). The window...
New York, NY – A drug currently in clinical trials as a cancer therapy can also stimulate pancreatic beta cells to secrete insulin, revealing a previously unknown mechanism for insulin regulation in type 2 diabetes, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The preclinical discovery, reported Nov....
Bristol, England – The largest review of papers for brain cancer that has spread from the lungs has found abnormalities in the brain cancer and for which licensed drugs could be clinically trialled to find out if they could treat the disease. The research led by the University of Bristol...
Iowa City, Iowa – A new study suggests that certain drugs commonly used to treat enlarged prostate may also decrease the risk for dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). This observational finding may seem surprising, but it mirrors previous work by the University of Iowa Health Care team that links the drugs...
Washington, DC – A protein known to play a role in growth of some types of leukemia appears to have a mixed function in breast cancer development, say researchers from the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC). The findings, presented at the annual meeting of the...
DURHAM, N.C. — Glen Jernigan will meet his bone marrow donor for the first time on June 20 at the Duke Adult Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program’s Patient Reunion. In 2005, Jernigan was diagnosed with aplastic anemia and recalls having more than a hundred blood transfusions before receiving...