With its launch barely three years in the rearview mirror, Remix Therapeutics Inc. has inked its second potential $1 billion pharma collaboration, drawing Roche Holding AG to the table with the promise of its RNA processing platform and the potential to develop small-molecule therapeutics targeting the underlying drivers of disease. At the same time, the Watertown, Mass.-based firm added $60 million in a venture round, bringing its total financing to date to $201 million.
Treeline Biosciences Inc. has divulged proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) compounds comprising a cereblon (CRBN) binding moiety covalently bonded to a B-cell lymphoma 6 protein (BCL6) targeting moiety through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Mirati Therapeutics Inc. has identified compounds acting as GTPase KRAS and/or GTPase KRAS (mutant) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Researchers at Aston Science Co. Ltd. and Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology have synthesized phenylsulfonamide derivatives acting as eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2-α kinase 1 (HRI) and/or translation initiation factor 2-α kinase 3 (PERK) and/or eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2-α kinase 4 (GCN2) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Guangzhou Fermion Technology Co. Ltd. has disclosed non-receptor tyrosine-protein kinase TYK2 (JH2 domain) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, asthma and more.
About 30% of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) harbor mutations in the gene encoding receptor-type tyrosine-protein kinase FLT3 in the form of internal tandem duplication (ITD) or mutations in the tyrosine kinase domain.
Allorion Therapeutics Inc. has entered into an exclusive option and global license agreement with Astrazeneca plc to develop and commercialize a novel epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) L858R mutated allosteric inhibitor.
Looking for novel anticancer agents, researchers from Ho Chi Minh City University of Science (Vietnam) and colleagues recently identified KTt-45, a compound derived from 6-prenylnaringenin, as a promising candidate.
Medilink Therapeutics (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. has entered into a worldwide collaboration and license agreement with F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. for the development of YL-211, a next-generation antibody-drug conjugate candidate targeting proto-oncogene c-Met for solid tumors.
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