Genetic Intelligence Inc. has described compounds acting as IL-2 expression or activity modulators reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, infections, autoimmune diseases and inflammatory disorders.
Nanjing Mingde New Drug Research Co. Ltd. has designed proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) compounds comprising an E3 ubiquitin ligase binding moiety covalently linked to a GTPase KRAS (G12D mutant)-targeting moiety via a linker for the treatment of cancer.
Immuneering Corp. CEO Benjamin Zeskind said he is “pleased with enrollment across the full trial” that’s ongoing with IMM-1-104 in cancer, and 30 subjects are due per arm in five arms that the phase IIa experiment includes.
Monopar Therapeutics Inc. has received Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) clearance in Australia to initiate a phase I therapeutic trial of its novel radiopharmaceutical MNPR-101-Lu. MNPR-101-Lu combines the therapeutic radioisotope lutetium-177 (Lu-177) with Monopar’s proprietary first-in-class humanized monoclonal antibody MNPR-101, which is highly selective against the urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR).
Beijing Zheyuan Technology Co. Ltd. has synthesized serine/threonine-protein kinase PLK1 (STPK13) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and sepsis.
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has disclosed phthalazinone or quinazolinone derivatives acting as poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
The year 2024 squeaked through another IPO this week, that of Actuate Therapeutics Inc., which raised $22.4 million becoming the 15th biopharma company to debut on U.S. exchanges this year. Out of 17 companies total, including one listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and another on the SIX Swiss Exchange, the industry has raised a total of $4.8 billion through IPOs.
In what represents just the second PCT filing to have emerged from Valar Labs Inc., the company’s co-founders – Joshi Anirudh, Viswesh Krishna, and Damir Vrabac – describe their development of an AI-derived histologic signature for predicting patient outcomes to treatments for pancreatic cancer.