Biomunex Pharmaceuticals SAS has signed an exclusive license and exploitation agreement with Institut Curie for the development of a new class of antibodies.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has received a multiyear $6 million award from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to develop innovative stem cell approaches to treat children and adolescents with recurrent solid tumors. The CIRM funding will support further CHLA research into harnessing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy.
Tumors in the stomach and pancreas are known to express claudin 18.2 (CLDN18.2) and the absence of expression in normal tissues makes it an attractive therapeutic target.
T-cell-engaging antibodies (TCEs) are synthetic molecules that redirect T cells to bind to the antigens on the surface of cancer cells to promote tumor elimination. In the case of multiple myeloma (MM), the approvals of anti-CD38 monoclonal antibodies (MAbs), chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies (CAR T) targeting B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) or, more recently, bispecific TCEs represent great advances, but some patients still relapse after treatment.
Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and collaborators have presented a new platform to identify and validate neoantigens that would otherwise escape traditional routine sampling methods. The project, which they describe in an article published on Feb. 28, 2024, in Science Translational Medicine, started after discussions at the beginning of a cancer vaccine program between teams at UCSD Moores Cancer Center (MCC) and LJI.
Claudin-6 (CLDN6) is highly expressed in several cancer types, including ovarian and endometrial cancers, while very low or no expression is found in normal tissues.
Researchers from Compass Therapeutics Inc. reported on the preclinical characterization of CTX-8371, a bispecific tetravalent antibody that presented synergistic anti-PD-1/PD-L1 activity.
Kling Biotherapeutics BV has presented preclinical data on an antibody, KBA-1413, which recognizes a specific glycoform of CD43 that is shared among acute myeloid leukemia (AML), myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and solid tumor cells.
Zeno Management Inc. has identified antibody-drug conjugates comprising antibodies targeting inactive tyrosine-protein kinase transmembrane receptor ROR1 (ROR1) covalently bound to exatecan derivatives through a linker.
Researchers from Astrazeneca plc and affiliated organizations have described the discovery and preclinical evaluation of casitas B-lymphoma proto-oncogene-b (Cbl-b) inhibitors as novel anticancer candidates.