Renal cell carcinoma accounts for approximately 90% of kidney cancers, and current treatments fail to prevent metastasis in up to 40% of patients. Potentially effective is immunotherapy based on CAR T cells that recognize CD70, which is little expressed in normal tissues but is expressed in more than 80% of renal cell carcinomas. However, such CAR T immunotherapy has so far not shown overwhelming success against renal cell carcinoma, and the therapeutic cells must be derived for each patient individually.
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG has advanced a novel T-cell engager resulting from a collaboration with Numab Therapeutics AG into preclinical development for the treatment of lung and gastrointestinal cancers.
Nailing down what Oppenheimer analyst Jay Olson characterized as “a trifecta,” Immuneering Corp. unveiled positive updated survival and safety data from the ongoing phase IIa trial testing oral, once-daily MEK inhibitor atebimetinib (IMM-1-104) in combination with modified gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxe in first-line pancreatic cancer patients.
Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. struck another $1 billion-plus deal, this time for a HER2-targeting antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), trastuzumab rezetecan (SHR-A1811), with Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd.’s subsidiary Glenmark Specialty SA.
Nanjing Nuoyuan Medical Devices Co. Ltd. has discovered drug conjugates comprising a fluorescent moiety targeting hepatocyte growth factor receptors (HGFR; MET) covalently linked to crizotinib through a linker. They are reported to be useful for diagnosis of liver and colon cancer.
Asieris Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. has identified compounds acting as inhibitors of CDK1/cyclin A2, CDK2/cyclin E1, CDK4/cyclin D1 and CDK6/cyclin D1 reported to be useful for the treatment of breast and ovary cancer.
Perseus Proteomics Inc. and Ube Corp. have disclosed antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) comprising antibodies T004b-PGAP-1 targeting human P-cadherin (CDH3) targeting covalently linked to cytotoxic drug through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Weatherwax Biotechnologies Corp. has prepared and tested cellular tumor antigen p53 (TP53) (Y220C mutant) activators reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Akari Therapeutics plc has released preclinical data demonstrating the potential of its novel antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) spliceosome modulating payload, PH1, for the treatment of tumors driven by alternative splicing-drivers, such as the androgen receptor splice variant 7 (AR-V7) in prostate cancer.
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