Duality Biologics (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. has presented data describing the discovery and preclinical results of DB-1303, an antibody-drug conjugate containing a trastuzumab biosimilar targeting HER2 (BAT0606), an exatecan derivative payload with topoisomerase I inhibitory activity (P1003) and an enzymatic ally cleavable tetrapeptide-maleimide-linker (payload-linker named L101P1003).
Halia Therapeutics Inc. has disclosed serine/threonine-protein kinase Nek7 inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, asthma, obesity, type 2 diabetes, hepatitis, peritonitis, neurodegeneration and psoriasis, among others.
The Gastrointestinal Research Foundation (GIRF) has launched a new initiative, CA CURE, to identify and fund research to improve diagnostics and develop therapeutics focused on immunotherapies and personalized vaccines for digestive cancers, with a focus on projects that might have difficulty attracting funds because they are too experimental or are in the initial stages of development.
Hand-foot syndrome (HFS), or palmoplantar erythrodysesthesia, is a dermatological toxicity produced by the fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy agents capecitabine and fluorouracil and affects 43-71% of patients.
Kawasaki Gakuen has divulged pyrrole-imidazole polyamides acting as transmembrane 4 L6 family member 1 (TM4SF1) and TMEM132b expression inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer metastasis.
Affimed NV and Artiva Biotherapeutics Inc. have entered into a new strategic partnership to jointly develop, manufacture and commercialize a combination therapy comprised of Affimed's Innate Cell Engager (ICE) AFM-13 and Artiva's cord blood-derived, cryopreserved off-the-shelf allogeneic natural killer (NK) cell product candidate, AB-101.
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