BBB for CNS development21 Jun 2026 16:32
From CC but surely we should get an update with more detail or are they saving for any NDA’s
Announced in August 2025, the partnership is focused on accelerating the discovery and optimisation of blood-brain barrier (BBB)-permeable, isoform-selective TYK2/JAK1 inhibitors for neuroinflammatory indications, including multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. The collaboration builds directly on our own preclinical work, where our proprietary Sareum Kinase Inhibitor Library platform identified three TYK2/JAK1 compounds with meaningful BBB penetration which is essential for CNS drug development. Receptor.AI brings to this work a tailored in silico programme, applying virtual screening, generative chemistry, and predictive modelling to identify targets with strong target binding, brain penetration, selectivity, and synthetic feasibility.
Progress within the collaboration has been steady. Following the initiation of lead optimisation work with Receptor.AI in August 2025, the initial rounds of AI-guided design, synthesis and in vitro assay have been completed with further assay work in progress. Sareum retains full ownership of all intellectual property and compounds arising from the collaboration, with no ongoing milestone payments due to Receptor.AI following conclusion of the project.
There is so much to Sareum and so many avenues for the next news, is tox next or something else first?
GLA