Cancer Research UK and Kisoji Biotechnology Inc. have signed an agreement to bring Kisoji's naked anti-TROP2 antibody, KJ-103, into a first-in-human trial. KJ-103 is a single domain antibody that binds to a unique epitope on TROP2.
The abscopal effect occurs when therapy leads to the regression of metastases distant from the target tumor. In the current study, researchers from INSERM aimed to evaluate the abscopal effect potentially inducted by the use the targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) candidate, [131I]ICF-01012, which has been previously shown to target only pigmented metastases.
Currently, cancer therapy trial-and-error methodology is inefficient and unsustainable. Oncology is the worst therapeutic area for drug trial success; only 3.4% of drugs that enter phase I end up being FDA approved, and 57% fail due to poor drug efficacy in trials. Building tools that may aid in predicting an individual’s response to a specific therapy may help in reducing costs, guesswork, and importantly improve the outcome of patients and accelerate new drug development.
Modifi Biosciences Inc. has come a long way very quickly. Spun out of Yale University in 2021, it published data on DNA in Science in July 2022, and now it’s being acquired by Merck & Co. Inc. for $30 million up front. Ultimately, Modifi shareholders could receive milestones of up to $1.3 billion.
Beijing Konruns Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has identified histone acetyltransferase KAT6A (monocytic leukemia zinc finger protein; MOZ; MYST-3) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Fibroblast activation protein (FAP) is absent or expressed at a very low level in normal tissues. However, it is overexpressed in around 80% of solid tumor stroma.
Rakovina Therapeutics Inc. has obtained a short-list of recommended drug candidates from an initial artificial intelligence (AI) screening effort using the Deep Docking AI platform under a collaboration with the University of British Columbia.
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