Researchers from Immunome Inc. and Zentalis Pharmaceuticals Inc. presented preclinical data for IM-1021, a novel tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 1 (ROR1)-targeted antibody-drug conjugate with a new topoisomerase 1 (TOP1) linker payload, being developed for the treatment of solid tumors and B-cell malignancies.
Researchers at Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. and Shanghai Hansoh Biomedical Co. Ltd. have disclosed crystalline salts of known tyrosine-protein kinase ABL1 (ABL) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of leukemia.
Ideaya Biosciences Inc. has announced FDA clearance of an IND application for IDE-275 (GSK-959), a small-molecule inhibitor of Werner helicase (WRN) discovered by Ideaya in collaboration with GSK plc.
AKT1 E17K is the most frequent gain of function mutation of the AKT1 gene. This mutation promotes pathologic localization of AKT1 to the plasma membrane and has been shown to induce leukemia in mice. Current options for AKT1 E17K-driven tumors are limited.
Ottimo Pharma Ltd. has emerged from stealth with a focus on developing innovative cancer therapies for solid tumors. The company’s lead program is jankistomig, a PD-1/VEGFR-2 bifunctional antibody.
The advantages of affibodies vs. antibodies are that they have a smaller size, better penetration and faster extravasation, can be produced both recombinantly and synthetically, and show robustness regarding protein scaffold.
Despite an outcome that TD Cowen analyst Tyler Van Buren called ”fantastic,” shares of Tyra Biosciences Inc. (NASDAQ:TYRA) closed Oct. 25 at $21.93, down $6.68, or 23%, as Wall Street digested new phase I/II data with FGFR3 inhibitor TYRA-300 in metastatic urothelial cancer from the Surf301 phase I/II study in progress.
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