Impact Therapeutics Inc. has described five-membered heteroaryl-pyrimidine compounds acting as ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 1 (USP1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Nkgen Biotech Inc. has received IND clearance from the FDA for a phase I study of its cryopreserved off-the-shelf allogeneic blood-derived natural killer (NK) cell therapy SNK-02, to evaluate safety and tolerability in participants with pathologically confirmed solid tumors refractory to standard-of-care therapy.
It’s been a rough year at Macrogenics Inc., but times may be changing. Having terminated a phase II study due to fatalities, dropped 15% of its workforce and closed research and manufacturing sites in the past year, the company has taken the helping hand of Gilead Sciences Inc. The pair have agreed to develop the bispecific MGD-024, which has a CD3 component for minimizing cytokine release syndrome, as an oncology candidate along with two additional bispecific research programs, a potential treatment for certain blood cancers, including acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes.
To determine if long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) LINC01018 has a tumor-suppressing role in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), scientists at the Theodor Bilharz Research Institute and the American University in Cairo developed a therapeutic modality to treat mice with experimental disease.
Sichuan Huiyu Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and Sichuan Huiyu Seacross Pharmaceutical Tech Co. Ltd. have divulged new polycyclic lysine-specific histone demethylase 1A (KDM1A, LSD1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of small-cell lung cancer (SCLC).
Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. and Shanghai Hengrui Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. have identified new fused tetracyclic mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase kinase 1 (MAP4K1, HPK1, MEKKK1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, diabetes, inflammation, infections, neurodegeneration and autoimmune, cardiovascular and reproductive disorders.
Researchers at the University of Queensland have been awarded funding to advance work across mRNA research, cancer vaccines and single-cell genomic technologies.
Biomea Fusion Inc. has received IND clearance from the FDA to begin a phase I/Ib trial of BMF-219, a selective, covalent menin inhibitor in patients with unresectable, locally advanced, or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), colorectal cancer, or pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma with an activating KRAS mutation.