Scientifically at least, the biggest story coming out of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) 2022 Congress is the success of cell therapy in solid tumors. “During this ESMO, there is a lot of novelty coming from T-cell therapies,” John Haanen told the audience at his joint keynote speech with Ton Schumacher – so much so that Haanen and Schumacher, both group leaders at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, left antibodies out of their keynote session in order to do justice to the advances in cell therapies.
Catalym GmbH reported in an oral session at the European Society for Medical Oncology meeting in Paris that its first-in-class growth differentiation factor 15 inhibitor, visugromab, demonstrated preliminary signs of efficacy in a heavily pretreated group of cancer patients who were resistant or refractory to checkpoint inhibitors.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress 2022, including: Adaptimmune, Curelab, Novartis.
Proof of concept has been achieved for a therapy for argininosuccinic aciduria consisting of human argininosuccinic lyase (ASL) mRNA encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (ASL-LNPs).
Researchers from CNRS and the Université d'Orléans presented the discovery of novel inhibitors of LIM kinases (LIMKs) as potential therapeutic candidates for the treatment of osteosarcoma (OS).
The PKMYT1 kinase has emerged as a promising therapeutic target for CCNE1-amplified cancers, after a recently reported genome-scale CRISPR/Cas9-based screen identified its inhibition as synthetically lethal for CCNE1 amplification.
“The association between air pollution and lung cancer is not new,” Charles Swanton told the audience at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) 2022 Congress. But as with so many associations, causation has been hard to establish, partly due to the puzzling absence of mutations.
Genexine Co. Ltd.’s DNA vaccine, GX-188E, showed potential in extending overall survival in patients with advanced cervical cancer in a phase II study when given in combination with Merck & Co. Inc.’s anti-PD-1 therapy, Keytruda (pembrolizumab).
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress 2022, including: Debiopharm, Elevar, Genexine, Gilead, Hutchmed, Innovent.
Quince Therapeutics Inc. (formerly Novosteo Inc.) has presented data on NOV-004, a construct that delivers abaloparatide therapeutic agent into the fracture site, designed for the treatment of osteogenesis imperfecta.
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