Hitching onto the emerging drug class of degrader-antibody conjugates (DAC), U.S. pharma giant Bristol Myers Squibb Co. (BMS) is picking up rights to the U.S. and Korean biotech Orum Therapeutics Inc.’s blood cancer candidate, ORM-6151, in a potential $180 million deal.
Substituted fluorinated N-propyl-pyrrolidine and n-propyl-azetidine compounds acting as estrogen receptor (ER) antagonists and selective estrogen receptor degradation (SERD) inducers have been reported in a Sanofi SA patent.
Merck KGaA scientists have identified new pyrido[3,2-d]pyrimidines acting as mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase kinase 1 (MAP4K1; HPK1; MEKKK1) inhibitors.
Myeloid cells expressing LILRB2 are abundant in the tumor microenvironment and can both drive cancer progression and hinder immune responses. Thus, targeting LILRB2 offers a potential strategy to boost immune-based cancer therapies, as it counteracts their suppressive effects on pro-inflammatory pathways.
Evotec SE and Dewpoint Therapeutics Inc. have established a strategic R&D collaboration to advance Dewpoint’s oncology pipeline programs of condensate modifying therapeutics to IND application stage.
Cancer Research UK and the KWF Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) have established a new multi-project strategic partnership to advance promising therapeutic agents for cancer.
Some strategies seek to alter molecular mechanisms that can redirect the programmed death of tumor cells. If you can’t selectively eliminate them or stop their proliferation, ask them to die, but don’t tell any other cells. That is the idea proposed by a group of researchers participating in a Chinese-American collaboration for the design of the new drug N6F11. In a mouse model, the compound caused death by ferroptosis only of cancer cells without altering immune cells.