Adcendo ApS has closed an oversubscribed $135 million series B financing round to support its development of first-in-class antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for the treatment of cancers with a high unmet medical need.
Bright Biologics LLC reported the discovery and preclinical evaluation of BB-203, an anti-PD-L1/anti-VEGF bispecific antibody (Ab) being developed for the treatment of cancer.
Transposon Therapeutics Inc. has acquired a portfolio of novel nucleoside analogues from Primefour Therapeutics Inc. for the targeted treatment of pancreatic cancer, certain other solid tumors and hematologic cancers.
A patent from F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. describes bicyclic heterocycle 5'-nucleotidase (CD73) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Sanofi SA has synthesized pyridoimidazolone compounds acting as mitogen-activated protein kinase 7 (MAPK7; ERK5) inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of cancer.
The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASp) is expressed exclusively in hematopoietic cells and presents either an autoinhibited or activated conformation. EG-011 is a first-in-class activator of the autoinhibited form of WASp designed for the treatment of hematological cancers.