CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. announced that the National Medical Products Administration of the People’s Republic of China has granted approval to conduct clinical trials of the company’s antibody-drug conjugate candidate, SYS-6002.
Nowadays, there are many tools for cancer diagnosis, from imaging techniques to biopsies. In traditional blood tests, liquid biopsy bursts onto the scene as an explosion of possibilities driven by molecular techniques for the detection and sequencing of proteins or genetic material. But specialists are cautious because they know that in liquid biopsies not everything is detected. At the ENA 2022 session “The role of ctDNA in clinical trials,” Marie Morfouace, a translational researcher at the EORTC, presented “ctDNA in clinical trial practice today,” where she described the balance of the possibilities of the liquid biopsy when confronting it with the results in patients offered by the studies published to date.
Parenchyma Biotech Inc. has described aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune disease.
Mablink Bioscience SAS., Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique have patented antibody-drug conjugates consisting of antibodies covalently linked to therapeutic drugs through an enzyme-triggered self-immolative linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene (KRAS) is one of the GTPases from the RAS family activating signaling pathways that regulate cell functions. KRAS mutation of glycine to aspartate at position 12 (G12D) is a common mutation in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, colorectal cancer, lung adenocarcinoma and other solid tumors. ASP-3082 is a proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) under development by Astellas Pharma Inc. The company has presented the first in vitro and in vivo results of this new compound.
Transcode Therapeutics Inc. has reported positive preclinical results with its lead candidate, TTX-MC138, which targets microRNA-10b (miR-10b). The company evaluated the bioactivity of TTX-MC138 monotherapy in a murine model of pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
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