NEW YORK, June 24, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TG Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:TGTX), announced today an agreement with Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq:LGND) to license exclusive global rights to develop and commercialize Ligand’s IRAK4 inhibitor research program. Interleukin-1 Receptor Associated Kinase 4, referred to as IRAK4, is a key signaling kinase that becomes inappropriately activated in tumors that carry certain oncogenic mutations of MYD88, which can be found in most patients with Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia, a rare B-cell cancer, as well as in a sub-set of patients with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Additionally, IRAK4 is a key component of signaling pathways which regulate immune and inflammatory processes suggesting that inhibition of IRAK4 may also be useful in the treatment of autoimmune related disorders. The IRAK4 program is currently in pre-clinical development.
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