Aprea Therapeutics Inc. has announced new preclinical data on APR-1051, the company’s next-generation oral WEE1 inhibitor, in human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).
Haisco Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. has identified new proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) comprising an E3 ubiquitin ligase binding ligand coupled to probable global transcription activator SNF2L2 (SMARCA2; BAF190B; SNF2-α)-targeting agent through a linker acting as SMARCA2 degradation inducers and thus reported to be useful for the treatment of lung cancer.
Diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs) are pediatric brain tumors with a very dismal prognosis since less than 5% of patients survive 2 years after diagnosis. Radiotherapy remains the standard treatment for DMG, and several combination chemotherapies and single-agent target therapies are currently being explored.
MYB is an oncogenic transcription factor that is often aberrantly expressed in hematologic malignancies, mostly in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Rgenta Therapeutics Inc. recently presented data for RGT-61159, a potent and selective MYB inhibitor compound that demonstrated cell killing across a panel of MYB-overexpressing leukemic cell lines.
Glioblastoma is the most frequent and aggressive primary brain cancer in adults, and patients can expect to live shorter than 2 years, regardless of therapy. The cancer can be treated with CAR T cells, but many patients develop resistance because tumors mutate or delete the antigens recognized by the T cells, while the tumor microenvironment suppresses T-cell activity.
At the recent meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College scientists co-presented a carbonic anhydrase IX (CAIX)-targeting 68Ga/177Lu theranostic pair for clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) and its preclinical evaluation.
Work at Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. has led to the identification of new protein arginine N-methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Impact Therapeutics Inc. has disclosed new heteroaromatic and heterobicyclic compounds acting as Myt1 kinase (PKMYT1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Therapies against aggressive T-cell lymphomas (TCLs) are limited and treatment resistance to histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors often occurs. Polycomb protein EED is a key member of the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) complex and is an attractive therapeutic target for TCLs. APG-5918 is an EED inhibitor from Ascentage Pharma Group International Co. Ltd. that has been proven to disrupt the PRC2 functioning and has been tested in preclinical TCL models as a promising approach.
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