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Genentech Bets On Kineta's Early-Stage, Disease-Modifying Pain Therapy

 
• By Joseph Haas

Genentech partners with the Seattle biotech on a non-opioid approach to chronic pain. Kineta says there's disease-modifying potential.

Handshake of businessmen

Genentech Inc. is taking another stab at the pain market, signing on very early to Kineta Chronic Pain LLC's nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha 9/10 antagonist program. The biotech thinks it may have struck on a drug target that may not only offer a safer approach to pain therapy than opioid receptor drugs, but could yield disease-modifying therapies as well.

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