Medicinova, Inc.
MediciNova, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing novel and small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of serious diseases with unmet medical needs in the United States. The company develops MN-166 (ibudilast), an oral anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective agent in Phase 2b/3 clinical trial for treating neurological and other disorders, such as progressive multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, degenerative cervical myelopathy, glioblastoma, and substance dependence and addiction, as well as prevention of acute respiratory distress syndrome, and long COVID. It is also developing MN-001 (tipelukast), an orally bioavailable small molecule compound in Phase 2 clinical trial to treat fibrotic and other metabolic disorders, including nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and hypertriglycedemia. The company has a license agreement with Kyorin Pharmaceuticals for the development and commercialization of MN-166 and MN-001. MediciNova, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in La Jolla, California.
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Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in discovering, developing, and providing therapies that enhance the lives of patients with hematologic disorders and cancer. The company's commercialized products include Tavalisse, an oral spleen tyrosine kinase inhibitor for the treatment of adult patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia; Rezlidhia, a non-intensive monotherapy to treat adult patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with a susceptible isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 (IDH1) mutation as detected by an FDA-approved test; and GAVRETO, a once daily, small molecule, oral, kinase inhibitor for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic rearranged during transfection (RET) fusion-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), as well as to treat adult and pediatric patients twelve years of age and older with advanced or metastatic RET fusion-positive thyroid cancer. It also develops R289, an oral interleukin receptor-associated kinases 1 and 4 (IRAK1/4) inhibitor for the treatment of hematology-oncology, autoimmune, and inflammatory diseases, as well as to treat lower-risk myelodysplastic syndrome. In addition, the company has product candidates in clinical development with partners BerGenBio ASA, Eli Lilly and Company, and Daiichi Sankyo. It has strategic development collaboration with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for the development of Olutasidenib in AML and other hematologic cancers with IDH1mutations, as well as with collaborative network for neuro-oncology clinical trials to evaluate Olutasidenib in combination with temozolomide in patients with high-grade glioma harboring an IDH1 mutation. Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.
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