Apogee Therapeutics has begun dosing healthy volunteers in a Phase 1 clinical trial of APG808, the company’s anti-inflammatory injection therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, and other inflammatory disorders. “Launching our second clinical program, ahead of initial timeline expectations, brings us one step closer to providing…

Treatment with the anti-inflammatory medication eblasakimab opened the airways of lung samples from people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) in laboratory experiments. The findings were shared by Aslan Pharmaceuticals, the company that’s developing eblasakimab, in an oral presentation at the Dermatology Drug Development Summit, held recently in…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ReAlta Life Sciences’ request to launch a Phase 2 clinical trial testing its experimental anti-inflammatory therapy RLS-0071 in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who are experiencing disease exacerbations. Exacerbations, or disease flare-ups, may occur several times per year…

I have embarked on a quest to reduce inflammation in my body, which is largely a result of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and aging. My latest effort is implementing an anti-inflammatory diet. When I was younger, anti-aging efforts revolved around preventing wrinkles and changes in body shape. But…

An experimental anti-inflammatory medication called DMX-700, being developed by Dimerix for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), was found to substantially reduce lung injury in a mouse model of the disease. “DMX-700 has demonstrated some very encouraging pre-clinical data,” Nina Webster, PhD, CEO and managing director of Dimerix,…

Five European countries have agreed to Verona Pharma’s plan to begin enrolling patients in a Phase 2b clinical trial of RPL554 as a maintenance treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. The trial will be conducted in the United Kingdom, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic. Verona expects to start…

Verona Pharma, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of therapeutic medicines to treat respiratory diseases, recently announced positive results of a Phase 2a dose-finding study on the new nebulized formulation of RPL554, its lead drug candidate. The positive data adds to the evidence that this drug could…