Part 2 of the VK2735 maintenance study tests whether daily or weekly oral tablets can hold weight loss first achieved with weekly subcutaneous injections.
The glucagon/GLP-1 dual agonist hit both weight loss endpoints in phase 3, though gastrointestinal discontinuations and competitor data temper the readout.
CaseBioscience joins an ARPA-H effort to develop room-temperature cell therapy preservation, Novartis licenses an mRNA-encoded T-cell engager from Abogen, and AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo, and Summit plan to combine Datroway with ivonescimab.