Shanghai Phrontline Biopharma Co. Ltd. has described antibody-drug conjugates comprising an antibody or antigen-binding fragment targeting HER2 (erbB2) covalently linked to a cytotoxic drug through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Although tricomplex pan-RAS (ON) inhibitors, such as RMC-6236, constitute a promising class of therapeutics against RAS-driven cancers, their on-target, off-tumor toxicities challenge the dosing strategy and the safety of drug combinations.
T-knife Therapeutics Inc. has filed a clinical trial application (CTA) to initiate a phase I trial of TK-6302, a PRAME-targeted T-cell receptor (TCR) T-cell therapy in solid tumors. Pending CTA approval, the ATLAS trial is planned to begin next year.
Captain T Cell GmbH has successfully closed an equity financing round to support its T-cell receptor (TCR) T-cell therapies for solid tumors. The company’s autologous lead program, CTC-127, is a best-in-class TCR T-cell therapy targeting MAGE-A4-positive solid tumors and is expected to enter clinical trials in early 2027.
The inhibition of PD-L1 and VEGF individually or in combination has shown efficacy across several solid tumor types, but not all patients respond to therapy or respond for short duration. IMM-2510 is a novel bispecific antibody developed by Immuneonco Biopharmaceuticals Inc. that targets both PD-L1 and VEGF, thus achieving both angiogenesis inhibition and immune checkpoint blockade.
In a deal worth up to $840 million, Third Arc Bio Inc. is licensing Adagene Inc.’s Safebody technology platform to generate two masked CD3 T-cell engagers against unique tumor associated antigens.
Researchers from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Marengo Therapeutics Inc. previously developed a first-in-class, bifunctional therapeutic molecule (STAR-0602) that selectively activates V β6 and V β10 T-cell receptor-expressing T cells and boosts antitumor responses in human ex vivo tumor models.
Hutchmed (China) Ltd. has developed HMPL-A251, a novel HER2 antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) designed to deliver a potent PI3K/PIKK inhibitor directly to tumor cells.
CIS Biopharma AG recently presented an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) targeting the L1 cell adhesion molecule (L1CAM/CD171) as a potential candidate for the treatment of advanced tumors.
Pinotbio Inc. recently reported a novel antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), named PBX-004, consisting of an ITGB6-targeting antibody conjugated to a potent topoisomerase I (TOP1) inhibitor payload.