HER2-targeting bispecific antibody zanidatamab, in development by Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc and Zymeworks Inc., produced better antitumor responses than current standard of care when used as a second-line treatment for biliary tract cancer (BTC) in a pivotal phase IIb study, bringing it closer to becoming the first therapy to target HER2-expressing BTC.
Despite the title of the Sunday, June 4 lead-off presentation at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago, there was little room left for doubt about the increasingly important place of artificial intelligence (AI) in drug development.
An unexpected burst of early summer heat and three nights of Taylor Swift performances at nearby Soldier Field didn’t deter tens of thousands of cancer vaccine and therapy developers from swarming Chicago’s McCormick Place for the first full day of presentations at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, one of the year’s biggest cancer conferences.
ITM SE has closed a €255 million (US$272 million) round to prepare for market entry, as its lead targeted radiopharmaceutical ITM-11 nears the end of phase III development in the treatment of neuroendocrine tumors of gastroenteric or pancreatic origin.
Researchers at Abbvie Inc. and Calico Life Sciences LLC have described protein tyrosine phosphatase inhibitors, particularly tyrosine-protein phosphatase non-receptor type 2 (PTPN2; TCPTP) and/or PTPN1 (PTP-1B), reported to be useful for the treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Qilu Regor Therapeutics Inc. has divulged protein-arginine deiminase type-4 (PADI4) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of sepsis, cancer, bacterial, viral infections, inflammatory disorders, autoimmune diseases and metabolic diseases.
Insilico Medicine IP Ltd. has identified small-molecule inhibitors of ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 1 (USP1) reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Bayer AG and Cedilla Therapeutics Inc. have entered into an exclusive license agreement to develop and commercialize Cedilla Therapeutics' cyclinE1/cyclin dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) complex inhibitors, which selectively address oncogenic drivers.
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