The agonist anti-FGFR1/KLB bispecific antibody, BFKB8488A, has been shown to be effective at reducing liver fat in NAFLD patients in a Ph1b study [1].

Structure-activity relationship, molecular docking, and molecular dynamic studies of diterpenes from marine natural products with anti-HIV activity
HIV-1 infection is a global epidemic whose treatment is limited majorly by viral resistance and adverse effects.

In Silico Modeling as a Tool to Predict and Characterize Plant Toxicity
One of the greatest challenges encountered during the manufacture of drugs is the high level of toxicity, which can have adverse effects on the environment, humans, plants, and animals.

Development of Quantitative Systems Toxicology Model to Predict Drug Induced Acute Kidney Injury via mtDNA Depletion Pathway
Treatment of chronic viral infections like HIV, Hepatitis B etc necessitates long term administration of powerful antivirals like...

Factors Affecting Successful Extrapolation of Ibuprofen Exposure from Adults to Pediatric Populations After Oral Administration of a Pediatric Aqueous Suspension
The importance of physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model refinement with data acquired in adults using a pediatric...

Mechanistic Modeling of Cyclosporine A-induced Acute Kidney Injury with RENAsym®
The use of Cyclosporine A (CsA) can cause tubular damage leading to a decline in renal function as determined by decreases in serum creatinine levels...

Modeling Insights on Species Differences in Response to CD8+ T cell-mediated Liver Injury
Idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (iDILI), which is typically rare and often severe, has led to black box warnings or drug withdrawals from the market...

Advancing Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Receptor Antagonists Using Quantitative Systems Toxicology Modeling to Characterize Next-in-Class Compounds Compared to the Hepatotoxic First in Class Telcagepant
While CGRP receptor antagonists have demonstrated efficacy in the acute and preventive treatment of migraine...

Simulx – GUI: a flexible and user-friendly application for simulations
Advanced simulator of clinical trials and decision-making tool

Quantitative Systems Toxicology Modeling Supports Safety Determination for Ubrogepant, a Novel CGRP Inhibitor
CGRP inhibitors are a class of drugs that meet a significant unmet medical need for migraine treatments.

Representation of Efavirenz mediated Drug Induced Liver Injury (DILI) Using Quantitative Systems Toxicology (QST)
Efavirenz is a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) used in combination with other agents to treat human...

Mathematically modeling CD8+ T cell-mediated drug induced liver injury (DILI): from ovalbumin to amodiaquine in mice
Idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (iDILI) is poorlynunderstood, but there is evidence to support that some iDILI events may be immune-mediated.

Novel Synthesis and Antiviral Evaluation of New Benzothiazole-Bearing N-Sulfonamide 2-Pyridone Derivatives as USP7 Enzyme Inhibitors
In this article, a series of benzothiazole-bearing N-sulfonamide 2-pyridone derivatives were synthesized via the reaction of benzothiazole...

SAVI, in silico generation of billions of easily synthesizable compounds through expert-system type rules
We have made available a database of over 1 billion compounds predicted to be easily synthesizable, called Synthetically Accessible Virtual Inventory (SAVI).

DILIsym Plays Critical Role in Submission to State of California for Common Analgesic Carcinogenicity Risk
Comments Submitted to California’s OEHHA Featured DILIsym Simulations

Simulation of first-in-human using an allometrically scaled population mechanistic TMDD model with preclinical monkey data
First-in-human: what dose to choose to elicit the desired effect (efficacy), without causing harm (safety)?

Implementation of the C-QTc study using MonolixSuite applications
International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) E14 guidance agreed to use a model-based study of concentration-QT data as a primary analysis in...

A library of tumor growth and tumor growth inhibition models for the MonolixSuite
Modular tumor growth (TG) and tumor growth inhibition (TGI) library

Comparison of pharmacokinetics and QTc effect of Quizartinib in Japanese and non-Japanese patients with Relapsed/Refractory (R/R) FLT3-ITD positive acute myeloid leukemia (AML) using population pharmacokinetic (PopPK) analyses
The PopPK and C-QTc analyses were conducted to compare the pharmacokinetic (PK) profiles and QTc effect of quizartinib in Japanese...

November 2020 GastroPlus Newsletter
If you are like me, the static virtual meeting thing is very getting old.