Chronic pancreatitis is the inflammation of the pancreas, the organ that produces digestive enzymes and insulin. The continued inflammation leads to permanent damage and scarring of the pancreas. This scarring causes digestive problems and eventually leads to diabetes.

Mission Cure Holdings, LLC, Path BioAnalytics, Inc. and Ariel Precision Medicine, Inc. jointly announced the creation of a unique research alliance to develop innovative treatments for patients with pancreatitis, a painful disease affecting more than a million people globally and for which there is currently no treatment.