Galapagos progresses rheumatoid arthritis drug

Belgium’s Galapagos NV, which specialises in developing drugs for bone and joint diseases, expects to file an investigational new drug application (IND) by the end of 2008 for Nanocort, a liposome-formulation of the corticosteroid, prednisolone. The drug is being developed to treat flares in rheumatoid arthritis.