Les Laboratories Servier SAS and Vernalis (R&D) Ltd. have disclosed son of sevenless homolog 1 (SOS1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, immunological and genetic disorders.
Spica Therapeutics NV has been awarded a 2-year €1.0 million (US$1.2 million) grant from Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO) to accelerate the development of the company’s lead anti-CD163 depleting monoclonal antibody program in oncology, advancing it toward early IND-enabling studies.
Billiontoone Inc.’s Northstar Select comprehensive genomic profiling liquid biopsy assay identified more treatable variants than other tumor profiling platforms in a study published in The Journal of Liquid Biopsy. Notably, the test found clinically actionable alterations substantially below the limit of detection for other tests.
Summit Therapeutics Inc.’s presentation for bispecific antibody ivonescimab in non-small-cell lung cancer could draw some extra attention at next month’s World Conference on Lung Cancer meeting thanks to promising overall survival data from partner Akeso Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s China study of the PD-1/VEGF candidate.
Foresight Therapeutics (Hefei) Co. Ltd. has described Werner syndrome ATP-dependent helicase (WRN; RECQ3; RECQL2) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Genescience Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. has identified camptothecin derivatives acting as DNA topoisomerase I inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. has synthesized proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) compounds comprising an E3 ubiquitin ligase binding moiety covalently linked to a eukaryotic peptide chain release factor GTP-binding subunit ERF3A (GSPT1) targeting moiety via a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Ensem Therapeutics Inc. has disclosed phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase α (PI3Kα) inhibitors, particularly PI3Kα mutant inhibitors, reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Hypoxia is a common event in the microenvironment of solid tumors, triggering some changes in gene expression profiles to adapt to low-oxygen levels. Increasing evidence exists regarding hypoxia and mitochondrial dysfunction to play a role in the progression of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
It is known that phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate 4-kinase, type II, γ (PIP4K2C) is a lipid kinase tied to poor outcomes in a variety of cancers, such as colorectal (CRC) and breast cancers. In the search for PIP4K2C degraders, researchers from Larkspur Biosciences Inc. discovered LRK-4189, a cereblon-mediated PIP4K2C degrader.