Corvus Pharmaceuticals announced new preclinical data showing that soquelitinib, their lead ITK inhibitor, could potentially prevent lung damage, inflammation, and pulmonary hypertension caused by systemic sclerosis. The study used Fra-2 transgenic mice, which mirror human systemic sclerosis features. After seven weeks of oral soquelitinib treatment, mice showed significant reduction in lung infiltration and fibrosis, improved clinical scores, reduced vascular smooth muscle hypertrophy, and lower right ventricular systolic blood pressure. These results were validated in a second bleomycin lung injury model.