Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) and PINOTBIO have patented benzothiazole and benzimidazole derivatives acting as NAD-dependent protein deacetylase sirtuin-7 (SIRT7) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, among other disorders.
Nuvectis Pharma Inc. has been in business for barely two years, but thanks to a business model involving in-licensing promising late preclinical drug candidates, it has already begun a trial with a molecule targeting a little-known pathway that cancer cells depend on for protection. The firm is also close to the clinic with a drug that could give a new twist to tyrosine kinase inhibition after a $16 million financing round in early August.
With potential regulatory approvals and filings for lymphoproliferative disease and mastocytosis drugs on the horizon, as well as high-money antibody-drug conjugate deals, the BioWorld Cancer Index (BCI) has shown some signs of life this summer. BCI is still down by 23.4% in 2022, but that is significantly better than the end of May when the index was down by 41%.
Researchers at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center have reported the development of an in vivo model of macrophage infiltration of the tumor microenvironment (TME) in melanoma and how infiltration affects tumor progression.
Ascentage Pharma has discovered sulfonyl benzamide derivatives acting as apoptosis regulator Bcl-2 and/or Bcl-2 (G101V mutant) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
The Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and the Societa Industria Farmaceutica Italiana SpA (SIFI) have described new peptides acting as vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 (VEGFR-1; FLT1) and VEGFR-2 inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, choroidal neovascularization, hematopoiesis disorders, macular edema, central retinal vein occlusion, central serous retinopathy, diabetic retinopathy and wet macular degeneration, among other disorders.
Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group and Shanghai Haiyan Pharmaceutical Technology have divulged new morpholine derivatives acting as P2X purinoceptor 3 (P2RX3; P2X3) antagonists and reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, pain, cough, depression, anxiety and genitourinary, gastrointestinal and immunological disorders, among other disorders.
Additional deaths believed to be associated with one of Foghorn Therapeutics Inc.'s lead candidates led the U.S. FDA to put a full clinical hold on its phase I study in relapsed and/or refractory acute myelogenous leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome.
Likely to garner attention at the upcoming European Society of Medical Oncology meeting are the MAGE-A4 and PRAME antigens which, although well-known and validated, have proved evasive for drug developers – a situation that may soon change.
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