CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. has announced clinical trial approval by China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for the antibody drug JMT-203, being developed by the company’s Shanghai JMT-Bio Technology Co. Ltd. subsidiary for cancer cachexia.
Osteosarcomas (OS) are the most common malignant bone tumor. The disease originates within the fastest growing areas of the long bones of children and young adults, where the histologic hallmark of OS is malignant bone formation (osteoid). Improvements in treatments have proven difficult to date with metastatic OS remaining a bleak prognosis routinely leading to lung metastases to ultimately cause death.
Incyte Corp. has described bicyclic amine compounds acting as cyclin-dependent kinase 12 (CDK12) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Abbisko Therapeutics Co. Ltd. has divulged pyrazole derivatives acting as protein arginine N-methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Immunophage Biomedical Co. Ltd. has identified ADP-ribosyl cyclase/cyclic ADP-ribose hydrolase 1 (CD38) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, neurodegeneration, and inflammatory, autoimmune and metabolic disorders.
Larkspur Biosciences Inc. recently published findings uncovering a role for B cells in antitumor immunity, and highlighting TIM-1 as a targetable checkpoint protein central to B-cell antitumor activity.
Arvinas Operations Inc. and Genentech Inc. have described proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) compounds comprising a Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) E3 ubiquitin ligase binding moiety coupled to a probable global transcription activator SNF2L2 (SMARCA2; BAF190B; SNF2-α) targeting moiety through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, including non-small-cell lung cancer.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has divulged proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) comprising cereblon (CRBN) ligands coupled to a tyrosine-protein kinase Lck targeting moiety via a linker acting as Lck degradation inducers reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and immunological disorders.
Researchers from Westlake Therapeutics (Hangzhou) Co. Ltd. have presented the discovery and preclinical evaluation of a novel erythrocyte-anti-PD-1 antibody conjugate, WTX-212, being developed for the treatment of cancer.
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