Timber leads the small ichthyosis pack

The pipeline of therapies to treat ichthyosis is small, but it’s made up of a differentiated mix of modalities and targets, in an attempt to reach subpopulations with differing etiologies.

At least four companies have products in the clinic for the disease, which involves skin dryness, scaling and thickening that can cover much of the body. There are no approved treatments for ichthyosis; the therapeutic candidates include small molecules, gene therapies and bacterial therapies...