Securing a second major partnership with Sanofi SA – this time worth a potential $2.56 billion – Earendil Labs will provide its AI-driven discovery platform to find new therapeutics for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
Scientists at Healzen Therapeutics Co. Ltd. and Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have described GTPase KRAS (G12D mutant) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Haisco Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. has disclosed antibody-drug conjugates consisting of antibodies covalently linked to antitumor drugs through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Crescent Biopharma Inc. has announced regulatory clearances of IND applications for CR-001 (SKB-118), a PD-1 x VEGF bispecific antibody, and CR-003 (SKB-105), an integrin β-6 (ITGB6)-targeted antibody drug-conjugate (ADC), both being developed for the treatment of advanced solid tumors.
Ernexa Therapeutics Inc. has successfully completed a pre-IND meeting with the FDA, setting a pathway toward submitting an IND and initiating a first-in-human trial for the treatment of ovarian cancer, expected in the second half of this year.
Ascentage Pharma Group International has obtained IND approval from the FDA for its BTK-targeted protein degrader APG-3288. A phase I study will be conducted in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies.
Innolake Biopharm (Hangzhou) Co. Ltd. has disclosed antibody-drug conjugates comprising bispecific antibodies covalently bound to exatecan through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Insilico Medicine Cayman Topco has announced a multiyear research and development collaboration with Laboratoires Servier SAS focused on identifying and developing novel therapeutics for challenging targets in oncology by leveraging Insilico’s proprietary AI platform, Pharma.AI.
Bayosthiti AI Pvt Ltd. aims to make RNA sequencing and AI-based preventive health care affordable and accessible for the Indian market, leveraging intellectual property from its parent company, Biostate AI Inc.
Convergen (Suzhou) Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has described proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) compounds comprising a cereblon (CRBN) E3 ubiquitin ligase-binding moiety coupled to a serine/threonine-protein kinase PAK4-targeting moiety through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.