Genescience Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. has identified camptothecin derivatives acting as DNA topoisomerase I inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Ensem Therapeutics Inc. has disclosed phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase α (PI3Kα) inhibitors, particularly PI3Kα mutant inhibitors, reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Lee Dae-hong founded Aivis Inc. in January 2021 as an AI-powered pathology software company, having led the development of the world’s first commercial under-display fingerprint recognition algorithm that was later incorporated into the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy A series of smartphones of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Relay Therapeutics Inc. has disclosed compounds acting as phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase α (PI3Kα) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum (PROS).
The discovery of the ‘Warburg effect’ more than 80 years ago implied that inhibiting tumor cells’ ability to consume abnormally large amounts of glucose could prevent them from growing. Taking advantage of the fact that hexokinase-2 catalyzes the first step of glucose metabolism, researchers at Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi and collaborators identified novel derivatives of the hexokinase-2 inhibitor lonidamine and identified at least one that was potentially more potent and less toxic.
Chengdu Chipscreen Pharmaceutical Ltd. has described ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 1 (USP1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Scientists from Jordan Ministry of Higher Education Scientific Research and the Hashemite University have identified doxorubicin and thymoquinone hybridized compounds with reduced side effects reported to be useful for the treatment of breast cancer.
Investigators at St. John’s University have published preclinical data regarding their endothelin-1 receptor (ETRA) antagonist HJP-272 for the potential treatment of cancer.
Researchers from Ovid Therapeutics Inc. presented preclinical efficacy data on the combination of OV-329, a small-molecule inhibitor of the mitochondrial GABA aminotransferase (GABA-AT) enzyme, with docetaxel in a murine intracardiac model of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
Researchers continue to search for how they can inhibit cancer metastasis as it can severely worsen prognosis, even if the primary tumor responded well to therapy. Researchers at Università degli Studi di Torino and collaborators previously showed that injecting an RNA aptamer targeting the miRNA miR-214, called anti-miR-214 sponge, reduced metastasis of tumors to lungs and liver. One drawback of this potential therapeutic approach was that the inhibitor oligo could enter all cells, not only tumors.
