Two South Korean conglomerates – Samyang Holdings Corp. and Samsung Biologics Co. Ltd. – listed their newly spun-off biopharmaceutical units on Korea Exchange’s (KRX) main trading board Nov. 24.
Crossbridge Bio Inc. has been awarded a $15 million grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to support completion of IND-enabling activities and advancement of CBB-120 into first-in-human studies.
Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are residues from ancient viral infections that have become integrated into the human genome. One of them – HERV-K – is aberrantly reactivated in solid tumors but silent in healthy tissues.
Researchers at Tubulis GmbH reported preclinical efficacy data on TUB-030, a novel 5T4-targeting antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), in several sarcoma subtypes.
Antengene Corp. Ltd. has outlined progress in its early-stage pipeline. The company has leveraged its Antengager T-cell engager (TCE) platform for the discovery of multiple investigational programs.
Hutchmed Ltd. has identified antibody-drug conjugates comprising an antibody or antigen binding fragment covalently linked to a GTPase RAS or KRAS inhibitor through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
The limited efficacy of cancer immunotherapy is usually attributed to suboptimal antitumor T-cell generation, as well as impaired immunological memory development. MDX-2004 is a trispecific antibody-fusion protein developed by Modex Therapeutics Inc. that targets CD3, CD28 and CD137 on human T cells, which was designed to overcome these limitations by rejuvenating the immune system and enhancing antitumor immunity.
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.
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