In August, Pact Pharma Inc. suspended its phase I trial after 16 patients had been treated with its autologous CRISPR-edited T cells “for business reasons,” the company announced at the time. Scientifically, though, the trial broke enough new ground to be concurrently presented in a late-breaking oral session at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for the Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) and published as an accelerated article preview in Nature on Nov. 10, 2022.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Annual Meeting including: Apexigen, Aulos, CG, Crispr, Cue, Curevac, Domain, Enterome, Immutep, Invios, Iovance, Medikine, Neoimmunetech.
Novartis AG has synthesized heteroaryl aminopropanol derivatives acting as leukotriene A4 hydrolase (LTA4H; LTA4) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), psoriasis, sepsis, periodontal and autoimmune disease, cardiovascular and inflammatory disorders, among others.
Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment reduced levels of estrogen and important heart-protective proteins, researchers reported in the Nov. 2, 2022, online edition of Science Translational Medicine. Hormone therapies could target this endocrine-cardiac-immune pathway and mitigate myocarditis risk without affecting treatment responses.
X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) is not unique to female cells and may confer some survival advantage to male cancer cells, according to scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard. The noncoding RNA XIST (acronym for X-inactive specific transcript), which in female mammals (of genotype XX) inactivates one of the X chromosomes, preventing the overexpression of the genes of the repeated chromosome from early stages of embryonic development, also acts somatically in some male cancers, compensating for the loss of the entire chromosome.
“We found that a small percentage of male cancers are expressing XIST, which normally is expressed in female cancers. And the percentage of male cancers that express XIST is variable depending on the cancer type,” Srinivas Viswanathan, researcher in the Department of Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard and assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, told BioWorld.
The U.S. FDA hit a Phoenix-based Abraxis Biosciences LLC facility with a warning letter citing out-of-control aseptic manufacturing processes for Abraxane (paclitaxel), a key chemotherapy drug. The letter, posted Nov. 8, noted that multiple media fill failures occurred last year during simulated aseptic processing operations on the Abraxane filling line.
Bayer AG has described phosphorus derivatives acting as son of sevenless homolog 1 (SOS1)/GTPase KRAS (G12C mutant) interaction inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Qingdao Ruiji Medical Technology Co. Ltd. has identified benzofuran derivatives acting as farnesoid X receptor (FXR) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, inflammation, metabolic, cardiovascular, liver, inflammatory bowel and renal diseases.
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