AJMC ®: How has treatment of complement-driven diseases changed since 2007, when the first complement inhibitor, eculizumab, was approved? SMITH: The development of eculizumab followed our ...

Omeros also has identified MASP-3 as the protein that is critical to the activation of the complement system’s alternative pathway in humans, which is linked to a wide range of immune-related ...

Novel Biologics Demonstrate Targeting of Complement System to Treat Genetic Disease, Ocular Disease and Organ Transplant CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Taligen Therapeutics, a biotechnology ...

Dianthus achieved its NASDAQ listing last year via a merger with Magenta Therapeutics. The company is focused on development of a single drug candidate, DNTH-103, which targets the complement system, ...

It was called ‘complement’ because it aided the antibacterial activity of antibodies. However, it is now known that the complement system can be activated early in an infection without the presence of ...

The lectin pathway is the third pathway in the complement cascade, discovered after the classical and alternative pathways. It more closely resembles the classical pathway due to similar binding ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A protein known as granzyme K was recently shown to be a driver of inflammation by activating the complement ...

Image of blood cells. KP104 is a bifunctional, first-in-class biologic that works by selectively inhibiting the alternative and terminal pathways in the complement system. The Food and Drug ...

Just a few months after discontinuing its most advanced pipeline asset, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals is now delaying testing of its only remaining clinical candidate. The oral factor D inhibitor, dubbed ...