Dispatch Biotherapeutics Inc. has obtained IND clearance from the FDA for DISP-10, enabling the initiation of a phase I study in patients with solid tumors. Initial clinical evaluation will begin in gastrointestinal cancers, with plans to expand into multiple additional solid tumor indications following clinical proof of concept.
Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are promising biotherapeutics composed of an antibody plus a cytotoxic payload via a chemical linker, thus allowing the delivery of cytotoxic payload to target cancer cells. Among cancer glycoproteins studied in cancer research, mucin-1 (MUC1) is among the most extensively researched.
The sea anemone Stichodactyla helianthus, which carpets the Caribbean seafloor, may hold the key to eliminating the senescent cells that survive cancer therapy. A collaboration led by Spanish scientists across several international research centers has discovered a new type of toxin that selectively eliminates senescent cancer cells.
Crinetics Pharmaceuticals Inc. has described drug conjugates consisting of a non-peptide moiety targeting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) covalently linked to a chemotherapeutic moiety through a linker reported to be useful for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
Newco Tecregen AG has raised CHF10 million (US$12.5 million) to advance a novel way of regenerating the thymus in order to boost T-cell production and stimulate recovery of the immune system following stem cell transplants and chemo- and radiotherapy.
Triana Biomedicines Inc. has divulged protein/nucleic acid degraders acting as cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) degraders reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Monash University has identified cyclic peptides acting as melanocortin MC5 receptor (MC5R) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of diabetes, obesity, cardiomyopathy, heart failure, renal disorders, Rabson Mendenhall syndrome, Donohue syndrome and lipodystrophy.
Linkcure Therapeutics has synthesized molecular glue degraders acting as zinc finger protein 803 (ZNF803; WIZ) degradation inducers reported to be useful for the treatment of sickle cell anemia and β-thalassemia.
Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has disclosed polypeptides acting as triple agonists of glucagon like peptide 1 receptor (GLP-1R), glucagon receptor (GCGR) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic receptor (GDIR; GPR119) reported to be useful for the treatment of dyslipidemia.
Disruption of alternative splicing can generate abnormal mRNA variants, producing nonfunctional proteins or triggering nonsense-mediated decay, and is implicated in many splicing-related diseases. Therapeutic approaches that modulate splicing, therefore, hold promise to redirect aberrant transcripts toward normal isoforms and reestablish functional protein expression.
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