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GSK′963 (GSK′963A) is a brain-penetrant, highly potent and selective ATP site-targeting receptor-interacting protein 1 kinase (RIP1; RIPK1) inhibitor (IC50 = 0.8-8 nM with 50 µM ATP; IC50 >10 µM against RIPK2/3/5 and 335 other kinases) that protects against TNFα/zVAD-induced necroptosis (EC50 = 1/4 nM in mouse L929/human U937 cultures) and blocks Y. pestis-induced death of murine fetal liver macrophages (1 µM). GSK′963 prevents lethal hypothermia by acute sterile shock (2 mg/kg i.p. 15 min prior to TNFα/zVAD i.v.) and protects against acute neuronal death upon autologous blood intracerebral hemorrhage induction in mice in vivo (25 mg/kg/3 hr i.p.).