Accession Therapeutics Ltd. has raised £16.6 million (US$20.3 million) in a series A round, as it prepares to take two targeted oncolytic/payload combination viruses into the clinic. At the same time, the company disclosed that the scientist who devised the tumor-only targeting mechanism is Alan Parker, professor of translational virotherapies at Cardiff University.
In a massive deal that is one of the year’s biggest, Akeso Inc. signed a collaboration and license deal with Summit Therapeutics Inc. to out-license its bispecific antibody, ivonescimab (AK-112), for development and commercialization in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan.
Several studies have indicated that volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaled breath can be altered by lung cancer and serve as identifiable biomarkers. A limitation of using these VOCs as clinical biomarkers has been the fact that hundreds of such molecules are present in exhaled breath and it is experimentally challenging to monitor the molecular concentration changes of all the VOCs and further use them in lung cancer detection.
Nikang Therapeutics Inc. and Shanghai Blueray Biopharma Co. Ltd. have described exocyclic amino quinazoline derivatives acting as GTPase KRAS inhibitors, particularly KRAS (G12D mutant) inhibitors, reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Remedy Plan Therapeutics Inc. has divulged nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAmPRTase; Nampt) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Chengdu Baiyu Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has synthesized NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitors acting as pyroptosis inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune, cardiovascular, endocrine, respiratory, renal, neurological and gastrointestinal disorders, among others.
The high and specific expression of Kita-Kyushu lung cancer antigen 1 (KK-LC-1) in multiple types of tumors makes it an ideal target for drug delivery.
All gains made throughout the summer have vanished as the BioWorld Cancer Index (BCI) has hit its lowest point in 2022. Down 41.9% this year, BCI diverged in October from the path taken by both the Nasdaq Biotechnology Index (NBI) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), both of which are moving upward. Still, NBI is down 7.8% and DJIA is down 5.4% for the year.
Theratechnologies Inc. paused enrollment of a phase I trial testing TH-1902, its lead peptide-drug conjugate for sortilin-expressing cancers, after finding efficacy "not convincing enough" nor outweighing adverse events in some participants, an undisclosed number of which experienced neuropathy and eye toxicity, the company said.
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