BioWorld’s 2022 end-of-year highlights included a toast to the future – of universal vaccines. Even before SARS-CoV-2 vaccines were developed in record time and saved countless lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines were a rare bright spot in the fight against infectious diseases. Bacteria are becoming multidrug resistant far faster than new classes of antibiotics are being developed, viral spillover events and vector ranges are increasing, and climate change is helping bacteria and fungi alike breach human thermal protections against infections.
Signet Therapeutics Co. Ltd. has divulged transcriptional enhancer factor (TEAD) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, metabolic disorders, inflammatory disorders and neurodegeneration.
Laekna Pharmaceutical Ningbo Co. Ltd. has synthesized compounds acting as phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase α (PI3Kα) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Researchers at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and at Tongji University have disclosed glutaminyl-peptide cyclotransferase-like protein (QPCTL; IsoQC) and glutaminyl-peptide cyclotransferase (QPCT; QC) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, obesity, aging, immunological disorders and neurological disorders.
JAK2 inhibitors (JAK2i) are the standard treatment for myelofibrosis (MF), offering symptom relief and reducing spleen size. However, all FDA-approved JAK2i are type I inhibitors, which fail to eliminate the mutant MPN clone, leading many patients to treatment discontinuation.
Ipsen SA has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Simcere Zaiming Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. for global rights outside of Greater China for SIM-0613, an LRRC15-targeting antibody-drug conjugate developed by Simcere Zaiming for solid tumors. The program is expected to enter phase I development in the second half of next year.
Mondego Bio Lda has selected protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 2 (PTPN2) inhibitor ZE00-0388 as its lead clinical candidate. The company is targeting initiation of a first-in-human phase I study in the first half of next year.
Small molecules that induce iron-dependent oxidative cell death known as ferroptosis can be effective against tumors that are resistant to other therapies. Several such molecules, such as RSL3, work by inhibiting glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4), an enzyme that mitigates oxidative stress and on which metastatic cancer cells depend in order to undergo the epithelial-mesenchymal transition.
Ehrlich Biotechnology Co. Ltd. has described antibody-drug conjugates comprising an antibody targeting EGFR (HER1; erbB1) covalently linked to a camptothecin derivative through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
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