Aethon Therapeutics Inc. has entered into a collaboration agreement with Revolution Medicines Inc. under which Aethon will use its Hapimmune platform to discover novel bispecific antibodies to mount an immune attack directed towards cancer cells hit by Revolution Medicines’ RAS(ON) inhibitors.
Bladder cancer is among the top 10 malignant tumors, still with a high mortality rate. There is a need for reliable biomarkers for early diagnosis of the disease. Proximity extension analysis (PEA) is a method that uses a quantitative PCR readout to analyze protein levels in plasma in longitudinal studies and genomic association studies.
Bridge Medicines LLC has divulged protein ENL (MLLT1; YEATS1) and/or FLT3 (FLK2/STK1) inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of acute lymphocytic leukemia and acute myeloid leukemia.
Ono Pharmaceutical Co Ltd. has identified diacylglycerol kinase α (DGK-α, DGKA) and/or diacylglycerol kinase ζ (DGK-ζ, DGKZ) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
It has been previously demonstrated that while cancer cells with defects in ataxia telangiectasia mutated kinase (ATM) signaling are susceptible to ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related (ATR) inhibition following treatment with DNA-damaging drugs, normal cells can tolerate ATR inhibition by activating an ATM-mediated compensatory DNA damage response.
Conformation-X Therapeutics LLC has closed an oversubscribed funding tranche of $3.65 million to support the company’s development of a pipeline of immunotherapies that activate both the innate and adaptive arms of the immune system.
Verismo Therapeutics Inc. has submitted an IND application to the FDA seeking to initiate a phase I trial this year of Synkir-310 for the treatment of relapsed or refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas (B-cell NHL), including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, follicular lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma and marginal zone lymphoma.
Researchers from China Pharmaceutical University published data detailing the discovery and preclinical evaluation of novel tubulin polymerization inhibitors as potential anticancer agents.
Hypoxia-inducible factor 2α (HIF-2α) is a transcription factor that plays a key role in oxygen homeostasis and response to tumor hypoxic microenvironment of cancer cells. Previous research has suggested that inhibition of HIF-2α is a promising antitumor approach, particularly against tumors associated with mutant von Hippel-Lindau (pVHL).