Rakuten Medical Inc. has presented preclinical results with RM-0256, a PD-L1-targeted photoimmunotherapy, showing its ability to kill immunosuppressive myeloid cells to activate local and systemic antitumor immunity.
Guangdong HEC Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has described programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1)/PD-1 ligand 1 (PD-L1) interaction inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, infections and autoimmune disease.
Scientists at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, Universitat de Barcelona and Université Paris Sciences et Lettres have divulged metal complexes (particularly Ru[II]) acting as photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, dermatological disorders and fungal infections.
A paper from Shenzhen University and affiliated organizations covers the discovery of a novel bromodomain-containing protein 4 (BRD4)-specific proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC).
Researchers at Anadolu University and Bilecik Seyh Edebali University have described quinazolinone derivative compounds acting as EGFR (HER1; erbB1) inhibitors and apoptosis inducers reported to be useful for the treatment of lung cancer.
Signet Therapeutics Co. Ltd. has divulged α, β-unsaturated amide compounds acting as transcriptional enhancer factor (TEAD) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Scientists at Livzon Pharmaceutical Group Inc., Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry and the University of Michigan have identified proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) comprising an E3 ubiquitin ligase binding moiety covalently bound to a cyclin-dependent kinase 12 (CDK12) and 13 (CDK13) targeting moiety through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.