Rx firm wants your Utah skunk cabbage

Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. said it has worked with the U.S. Forest Service since 2007 to find the plant, often considered a “nuisance” weed, and has purchased it from landowners in several states. It claims to have invested more than $1 million in the state of Utah by providing jobs and restoring land where the plant has been harvested.

“As cancer impacts all of us either directly or indirectly, it has been gratifying to work with Infinity on this project,” said Pam Brown, forest supervisor at Utah’s Manti-La Sal National Forest, in a statement released by the company. “We have appreciated the company’s commitment to the community and the surrounding environment, including its efforts to restore the land after harvest.”

• IPI-926 belongs to a class of drugs known as Hedgehog pathway inhibitors. In healthy adults, the Hedgehog pathway is inactive in most cells. In people with certain cancers, the Hedgehog pathway in cells is turned on and helps promote cancer growth and survival. IPI-926 is designed to block the function of a key protein in the Hedgehog pathway and is being tested in clinical trials.

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Rx firm wants your Utah skunk cabbage

The plant contains a key ingredient for a possible treatment, IPI-926, which is designed to target difficult-to-treat cancers, such as pancreatic cancer and chondrosarcoma, the company said. “As cancer impacts all of us either directly or indirectly,



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