Researchers at Queen’s University of Belfast and collaborators have developed a DNA vaccine against high-grade serous ovarian cancer. The vaccine encodes PRAME, which the researchers found to be upregulated in several cohorts of patients with the malignancy.
Sunrock Biopharma SL and Shanghai Escugen Biotechnology Co. Ltd. have joined forces in a strategic partnership to codevelop SRB-123, a first-in-class antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) targeting C-C motif chemokine receptor 9 (CCR9), a tumor-associated antigen overexpressed in multiple solid tumors, including pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer.
Shanghai Tyk Medicines Co. Ltd. and Tyk Medicines Inc. have identified poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase (PARG) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Among gynecological cancers, ovarian cancer is the deadliest one and with the worst prognosis primarily due to resistance to platinum-based therapies. Esculetin has been shown to exert antitumoral effects in some cancer types, but its effect on ovarian cancer is not well known.
In their ongoing search for effective small-molecule inhibitors of focal adhesion kinase (FAK), researchers at Beijing Normal University and collaborators started from a promising lead compound that they previously described.
In their ongoing search for effective small-molecule inhibitors of focal adhesion kinase (FAK), researchers at Beijing Normal University and collaborators started from a promising lead compound that they previously described.
Imunon Inc. soared by 179% on the heels of phase II Ovation 2 data showing that its IMNN-001 immunotherapy led to a 13-month increase in overall survival among women with ovarian cancer. Patients in the intent-to-treat population, receiving the drug plus standard-of-care neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy (N/ACT), achieved median overall survival (OS) at 46 months vs. 33 months with N/ACT alone. Increased activity was seen among patients treated with poly ADP-ribose polymerase inhibitors, with the median OS not yet reached after more than five years vs. 37 months in the control arm.
Ovarian cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women, with high recurrence rates and resistance to chemotherapy. CAR T-cell therapies present limited efficacy in solid tumors due to tumor heterogeneity and immune suppression in the tumor microenvironment.
ADC Therapeutics SA has described antibody-drug conjugates comprising antibody targeting sodium-dependent phosphate transport protein 2B (SLC34A2; NaPi-2b) covalently linked to exatecan through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of ovarian cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Tilt Biotherapeutics Ltd. has raised $25.6 million in a series B round that will fund phase II development of the lead oncolytic virus in the treatment of platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.
