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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently granted orphan drug designation to Calluna Pharma‘s CAL101 as a potential treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).  This designation is intended to incentivize the development of treatments for rare diseases that affect fewer than 200,000 people…

Blocking caspase-9 — an enzyme involved in programmed cell death, or apoptosis — may halt or reverse tissue scarring in pulmonary fibrosis (PF), according to a new preclinical study. Researchers found elevated levels of caspase-9 in lung tissue from people with PF and in a mouse model of the…

Software that uses artificial intelligence to analyze medical imaging tests may help facilitate earlier diagnosis and more accurate monitoring of pulmonary fibrosis in people with underlying lung diseases. Brainomix‘s e-Lung could allow doctors to detect progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF), where lung tissue becomes increasingly scarred and leads to…

Long-term treatment with deupirfenidone (LYT-100) is generally well tolerated and may stabilize lung function in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), according to new clinical trial data announced by the therapy’s developer, Puretech Health. Puretech has already met with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to discuss the…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved nerandomilast, an oral medication developed by Boehringer Ingelheim, to treat adults with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) — when the lung disease has no known cause. The therapy will be marketed under the brand name Jascayd. According to a…

Treatment with the experimental therapy nerandomilast appears to reduce the risk of death in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF), according to a new analysis of clinical trial data presented by the therapy’s developer, Boehringer Ingelheim. “The new pooled data zoom in on…

LTI-03, an experimental treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) that’s currently in clinical testing, was shown to reduce inflammation and scarring in experiments done on lung tissue collected from IPF patients, according to a study. The study showed that LTI-03’s effects on inflammation and scarring were similar to those…

GRI-0621, an experimental oral therapy for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), may stabilize lung function, according to an interim analysis of an ongoing Phase 2a study. Forced vital capacity (FVC), a measure of how much air a person can forcibly exhale, didn’t worsen during the first six weeks of the…

Using a specialized lab technique, a collaborative U.S. research team identified cellular changes in the body that could be early drivers of lung scarring (fibrosis) in people with pulmonary fibrosis (PF). That’s according to the findings of a new study in which the researchers, from three universities, exposed lung…

The inhalation therapy Tyvaso (treprostinil) significantly improved a measure of lung function for people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) in a Phase 3 clinical trial. The top-line result means that the Phase 3 TETON 2 clinical trial (NCT05255991) has met its main goal. Tyvaso’s developer, United…