Cyclin-dependent kinase 12 (CDK12)/cyclin K and CDK13/cyclin K inhibitors have been described in a Nanjing Sanhome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. patent and are reported to be potentially useful for the treatment of cancer.
Insilico Medicine Inc. has prepared and tested new spirocyclic mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase kinase 1 (MAP4K1; HPK1; MEKKK1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and viral infections.
Fermitin family homolog 1 (FERMT1), a member of the kindlin family of focal adhesion proteins, plays a pivotal role in mediating integrin-dependent cell adhesion and signaling. Scientists at Fujian Medical University (FJMU) assessed the functional significance of FERMT1 in glioma progression and stemness.
Researchers from Universite de Sherbrooke and University of California San Francisco presented the discovery and preclinical characterization of CCR2-targeting pepducin, PP-101.
Ipsen SA, of Paris, struck a $461 million deal with Day One Biopharmaceuticals Inc. for ex-U.S. rights to tovorafenib, an oral drug for pediatric brain tumor that gained U.S. FDA accelerated approval April 23 as Ojemda (tovorafenib).
Camptothecin derivatives reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer have been disclosed in a recent Genescience Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. patent.
Hainan Simcere Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has prepared bicyclic compounds acting as fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of cancer.
Insilico Medicine Inc. has identified compounds acting as tyrosine-protein phosphatase non-receptor type 2 (PTPN2; TCPTP) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and metabolic disease.
Oncozen Co. Ltd. has patented new proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) compounds comprising a heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) binding moiety covalently bound to hepatocyte growth factor receptor (HGFR; MET) targeting moiety through a linker.