Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. has synthesized antibody-drug conjugates comprising a monoclonal antibody covalently linked to exatecan derivatives through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Haihe Biopharma Co. Ltd. has disclosed benzo(hetero)cycloalkyl compounds reported to be useful for the treatment of acne, spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, and more.
Hervolution Therapeutics ApS (formerly Inprother Aps) has announced a $11.7 million series A financing to support its work developing novel human endogenous retrovirus (HERV)-targeted immunotherapies to address diseases of aging.
Engineered probiotics, mainly bacterial probiotics, are an emerging platform for in situ delivery of therapeutics, including anticancer therapies, to the gut. Writing in Cell Chemical Biology, researchers from Washington University School of Medicine and collaborators present a novel yeast-based therapeutic oral platform to deliver next-generation immune checkpoint inhibitor proteins directly to gastrointestinal tumors.
China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) approved Innovent Biologics Inc.’s NDA for Dovbleron (taletrectinib), a next-generation ROS1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), for treating adults with locally advanced or metastatic ROS1-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have been previously treated with ROS1 TKIs.
Biopolar Hongye (Nantong) Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has described proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) comprising an E3 ubiquitin ligase cereblon (CRBN) binding moiety covalently linked to a Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) binding moiety reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals LLC has divulged eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2-α kinase 3 (PERK) and/or GCN2 inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and amyloidosis.