Israeli biotech Biolinerx Ltd. will hand off the rights to its stem cell mobilizer, motixafortide, in Asia to China’s Gloria Biosciences Co. Ltd. via an out-licensing deal worth up to $280 million, news that sent stocks soaring nearly 13% on Oct. 31.
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.
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