Researchers in Australia have developed new cancer cell line models for pediatric cancers with the lowest survival rates, with a focus on high-risk central nervous system tumors such as glioblastoma.
The FDA has cleared Tango Therapeutics Inc.'s IND application for TNG-462, a next-generation methylthioadenosine-cooperative (MTA) inhibitor of protein arginine methyl transferase 5 (PRMT5) for the treatment of cancers with methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) deletion.
As the FDA has in the past when a court issued an opinion it didn’t agree with, the U.S. agency is trying to limit the fallout from an appellate court ruling in Catalyst Pharmaceuticals Inc. vs. Becerra, which involved the breadth of orphan drug exclusivity, to that case alone.
Lantern Pharma Inc.'s LP-284 has been awarded orphan drug designation by the FDA for the treatment of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). LP-284 is a novel small-molecule agent that preferentially damages DNA in cancer cells harboring mutations in DNA damage repair pathways.