On March 27th, Japan's Sosei Group Corporation announced that their board members and executives were reelected during the 34th Annual General Meeting and subsequent board meeting in Tokyo.

On April 18th, Cerevel reported positive results from its Phase 3 TEMPO-3 trial for tavapadon, a D1/D5 receptor partial agonist aimed at treating Parkinson's disease.

GPCRs, as key signal transduction molecules on the cell surface, regulate various physiological processes and constitute one-third of the targets for clinical drug applications.

The challenge is finding how to effectively alleviate these symptoms while maintaining sufficient safety. Tavapadon has found a balance in addressing this issue.

In March, British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced its intention to acquire Amolyt Pharma, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing innovative therapies for rare endocrine diseases.

The study reveals a structure-guided strategy for biased drug optimization and has led to the development of two biased agonist drug candidates targeting the APLNR receptor.

Opioid receptors are crucial for pain relief, blocking pain signal transmission to reduce acute and chronic pain like post-surgery and cancer pain.

On March 28th, Genfleet Therapeutics publicly announced a patent for an oral KRAS G12D inhibitor, with the patent number WO2024061370A1.

Bitopic ligands of GPCRs (G protein-coupled receptors) refer to a single chemical entity composed of two pharmacophoric groups covalently linked together.

On March 28th, the journal "Cell" published an online research paper titled "Flexible Scaffold-based Cheminformatics Approach for Polypharmacological Drug Design".

X4 Pharmaceuticals announced preliminary results from its Phase 2 trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of once-daily oral mavorixafor with or without injected G-CSF in patients with idiopathic, cyclic, or congenital neutropenia.

Deucrictibant is a new, potent oral small-molecule bradykinin B2 receptor antagonist, originally developed by the Pharvaris team.