Researchers at Daegu-Gyeongbuk Medical Innovation Foundation and Korean Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology have identified acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of liver cancer.
Synnovation Therapeutics Inc. has synthesized phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase α (PI3Kα) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, congenital lipomatous overgrowth, vascular malformations, epidermal naevi and skeletal abnormalities and PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum (PROS).
Researchers at Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College have disclosed pyrrolopyrimidine compounds acting as Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, lymphoma, primary central nervous system, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Replay Holdings LLC has entered into an exclusive, worldwide license agreement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for intellectual property related to a library of T-cell receptors (TCRs) directed against multiple cancer neoantigens.
Inxmed Co. Ltd. has licensed Escugen’s Ezwi-Fit linker-payload platform for use in the development of next-generation tumor-associated antigen (TAA)-targeting antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs).
Researchers from Cogent Biosciences Inc. have reported the discovery and preclinical characterization of CGT-4255, a novel EGFR-sparing, ErbB2 inhibitor with activity against oncogenic ErbB2 mutations.
Gilead Sciences Inc. has signed an agreement with Compugen Ltd. to exclusively license Compugen’s preclinical antibody program against IL-18 binding protein, including the COM-503 drug candidate. COM-503 is a high affinity antibody which blocks the interaction between IL-18 binding protein and IL-18, thereby inhibiting cancer growth.
Researchers from Hebei Medical University and affiliated organizations have discovered new folate receptor (FR)-targeted fluorescent probes for tumor detection.
It is known that CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy is useful in the treatment of large B-cell lymphoma, but about 60% of patients relapse after treatment, and about 30% of these are CD19-negative patients with poor survival. Sana Biotechnology Inc. is developing a hypoimmune CD22-directed CAR T-cell therapy, named SC-262, for the potential treatment of large B-cell lymphoma.
Hemispherian AS has been granted NOK16 million (US$1.54 million) by the Research Council of Norway, which the company intends to use to support development of its drug candidates aimed at treating platinum-resistant ovarian cancers.
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