Coimmune Inc. has exercised its option to obtain an exclusive license to IL-18 armored chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) technology under a prior agreement with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). The company plans to couple the technology with allogeneic cytokine induced killer (CIK) cells to launch the clinical development of CMN-008 (armored CAR-CIK cells), with CD19 as the initial target in B-cell malignancies.
Lift Biosciences Ltd. has released preclinical data demonstrating that its immunomodulatory alpha neutrophil product (IMANp) possesses both cytotoxic and immunomodulatory functionalities that could signal its potential to cure solid tumors. IMANp is generated from the hematopoietic stem cells of donors with exceptional anticancer innate immunity.
Impact Therapeutics (Shanghai) Inc. has divulged substituted tricyclic compounds acting as poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP; ARTD) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Biofront Ltd. has described proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) comprising cereblon (CRBN) ligands coupled to a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase kinase 1 (MAP4K1; HPK1; MEKKK1) targeting moiety via linker acting as HPK1 degradation inducers reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
T cells do not have the last word in some breast cancers. According to a study from the University of Pittsburgh, the key to estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast tumors are macrophages, not T cells, and targeting them could prevent immunotherapy failure in this type of cancer.
Adlai Nortye Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has described molecular glue degraders acting as cyclin-dependent kinase 12 (CDK12)/cyclin K degraders reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, viral infections, autoimmune disease and inflammatory disorders.
Janssen Biotech Inc. and Yuhan Corp. have synthesized substituted aminopyridine compounds acting as EGFR (HER1; erbB1) (mutant) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and immunological disorders.
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