First-in-human intrapulmonary intratarget microdosing of a novel dual inflammasome inhibitor of NLRP 1/ NLRP 3 in ex vivo human lungs and patients with interstitial lung disease
medRxiv Preprint Server May 5, 2026 Tom M. Quinn, Feng Li, Becky Wheeler et al. preprint
The development of lung-directed therapeutics is limited by poor translational fidelity between preclinical models and early-phase clinical trials. We report a first-in-human Phase 0 intratarget microdosing study demonstrating the feasibility of intrapulmonary delivery and pharmacological interrogation of a novel inflammasome inhibitor. A 100 μg microdose of ADS032, a dual NLRP1/NLRP3...