As investment in Asia biohubs continues into 2024, Merck KGaA’s Milliporesigma is the latest to drop more than €300 million (US$328 million) into a new bioprocessing production center in Daejeon, South Korea.
Nuvation Bio Inc. said on March 25 it will acquire Anheart Therapeutics Ltd., a U.S.- and China-based precision oncology company, in an all-stock transaction, adding Anheart’s ROS1-inhibiting lung cancer drug, taletrectinib (AB-106), to its pipeline.
One of the building blocks for newly launched Clasp Therapeutics Corp. is making the right patient choices for treatment. If those who receive the company’s therapy are correctly identified, CEO Robert Ross told BioWorld, it will have a profound effect on outcomes. The missing link in cancer treatment, Ross added, was how to identify a patient, something he said Clasp is able to do.
University of Nebraska has described SF-2523 derivatives acting as dual inhibitors of bromodomain-containing protein 4 (BD2 domain) (BRD4 BD2) and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) reported to be useful for the treatment of medulloblastoma and fibrosis.
China Pharmaceutical University scientists have published details on the discovery and preclinical evaluation of a glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) and cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) dual inhibitor being developed for the treatment of cancer.
Aptamer Sciences Inc. has filed an IND application with the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety seeking clearance to conduct a phase I trial of AST-201 in patients with GPC3-positive advanced solid tumors.
Previous research has shown that adenosine impairs antitumor immunity, and high levels of adenosine and CD73 have been associated with poor prognosis in cancer.