Myrio Therapeutics Pty Ltd. has been able to accomplish something no other company has yet been able to crack: to develop binders where both the affinity and the specificity can be increased.
Vigencell Inc. plans to seek conditional approval in South Korea for VT-EBV-N, an antigen-specific killer T-cell therapy for natural killer T-cell lymphoma, after gaining positive top-line data from a phase II study Nov. 25.
Prognomiq Inc. reported the launch of its Provue Lung, a novel blood-based laboratory developed test designed to help improve detection of lung cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
Chengdu Chipscreen Pharmaceutical Ltd. has identified S-adenosylmethionine synthase isoform type-2 (Mat2A) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Nikang Therapeutics Inc. has disclosed proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) compounds comprising an E3 ubiquitin ligase-binding moiety coupled to a cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2)- and/or CDK4-targeting moiety through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
FGFR3 genomic alterations, including S249C as the most common, are recognized oncogenic drivers in 10%-60% of bladder cancers depending on the disease stage. Onco3r Therapeutics BV recently reported the identification of a novel series of highly potent, isoform-selective small-molecule FGFR3 inhibitors.
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is notoriously difficult to treat because it is quite aggressive and the tumors do not express the three major surface hormone receptors that can be targeted with available drugs. A potential target for treating this cancer may be glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4), which normally protects cells from ferroptosis, an iron-mediated form of cell death triggered by high oxidative stress.
Nectin-4 is a cell-adhesion molecule that is highly expressed in several malignancies, including bladder, colorectal, lung and breast cancers, while exhibiting minimal expression in most normal adult tissues.
Researchers from Compass Therapeutics Inc. detailed the preclinical characterization of CTX-10726, a bispecific, tetravalent antibody that simultaneously targets VEGF-A and PD-1.
A paper from Onchilles Pharma Inc. and collaborating institutions details the development of N-17350, a next-generation therapeutic elastase optimized for intratumoral delivery that targets the neutrophil elastase pathway.