Saturday, 14 January 2012

USAN Watch - January 2012

The USANs for January 2012 have just been published.

USAN Research Code StructureDrug ClassTherapeutic classTarget
arhalofenateMBX-102, JNJ-39,659,100synthetic small moleculetherapeuticPPAR-gamma
bitopertinRo-4917838synthetic small moleculetherapeuticGlyT1
naldemedineS-297,995natural product-derived small moleculetherapeuticperipheral opioid receptors
pateclizumabRG-7416, PRO-283698, MLTA-3698Amabtherapeuticlymphotoxin alpha
pictilisibGDC-0941, RG-7321synthetic small moleculetherapeuticPI3K, mTor
tivozanib, tivozanib hydrochlorideAV-951, Kil-8951synthetic small moleculetherapeuticVEGFR
Update: Fixed research code for Pactelizumab - thanks to Robert Jones (details in the comments).

2 comments:

Robert Jones said...

USAN slipped up - RG7415 is rontalizumab - an anti-IFNalpha Mab

Pateclizumab should be RG7416

... unless this pipeline chart from Genentech is wrong

http://www.gene.com/gene/pipeline/pdf/early-pipeline.pdf

John Overington said...

That would explain why RG7415 was already assigned to ronta in the mab data....

Thx!