Convalife Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. has presented data for their bispecific antibody CVL-006, which targets both PD-1 and VEGF-A. CVL-006 blocks both the PD-1-driven immune pathway plus VEGF-A-driven angiogenesis, thus conferring a dual mechanism for superior antitumoral activity.
Cancer of the uterus is the most common gynecological malignancy in the U.S., with over 60,000 diagnoses per year, where incidence and mortality have increased through the years. About 30%-40% of patients with high-grade disease harbor mutations in the PPP2R1A gene, which encodes the primary subunit of protein phosphatase 2A, with hotspots being P179R and S256F.
At this year’s AACR-NCI-EORTC conference, several presentations brought to light new ways to tackle the treatment of genomically unstable cancers. Genomically unstable cancers can be treated by exploiting their repair dependencies, inducing catastrophic DNA damage, or harnessing immune responses to instability.
Hefei Institutes of Physical Sciences has synthesized new pyrazoleamide compounds acting as receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 1 (RIPK1; RIP-1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, Crohn’s, Graves, Parkinson’s disease, ischemia, sepsis, multiple sclerosis and HIV infection.
Gilead Sciences Inc. has reported new compounds acting as phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase α (PI3Kα) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Preclinical results were recently presented from studies conducted by Fulcrum Therapeutics Inc. evaluating FTX-6274, a novel, orally bioavailable embryonic ectoderm development (EED) inhibitor that targets the PRC2 complex, in models of castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have developed a new type of allogeneic immune cell therapy that demonstrated potent antitumor activity against triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) in preclinical studies.
Mutant KRAS is a well-known oncogenic driver and has remained undruggable for many decades. The development of pan-KRAS inhibitors that target a broad range of mutations is a promising approach to cancer treatment.
At the ongoing AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics 2025 in Boston, Bridgebio Oncology Therapeutics Inc. (BBOT) presented data on BBO-11818, a potent and selective KRAS inhibitor with activity against several KRAS mutants both in active (ON) and inactive (OFF) forms.
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