Signet Therapeutics founder Haisheng Zhang is betting on organoids and AI to outsmart diffuse gastric cancer and the limits of traditional “clean” drug design.
South Korean researchers led by Lee In-suk of Yonsei University have reported the most complete oral microbiome catalog to date, with more than 72,000 genomes. Detailed in Cell Host & Microbe on Nov. 12, 2025, the database is expected to serve as a universal platform for academia and enable “precision microbiome medicine” for the industry, Lee told BioWorld.
Shanghai Phrontline Biopharma Co. Ltd. has described antibody-drug conjugates comprising an antibody or antigen-binding fragment targeting HER2 (erbB2) covalently linked to a cytotoxic drug through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Adlai Nortye Biopharma Co. Ltd. and Adlai Nortye Pte Ltd. have divulged GTPase KRAS (mutant) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, inflammatory diseases and immunological disorders.
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has identified aryl sulfone and sulfanone derivatives acting as orexin OX2 receptor (HCRTR2) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of eating disorders, fatigue, Kleine-Levin syndrome, narcolepsy, obesity, pain, and psychiatric and inflammatory disorders, among others.
Inventisbio Co. Ltd. and Inventisbio LLC have synthesized Werner syndrome ATP-dependent helicase (WRN; RECQ3; RECQL2) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Samjin Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has disclosed inhibitors of 17-β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 13 (HSD17B13; 17-β-HSD 13) and/or estradiol 17-β-dehydrogenase 1 (HSD17B1; 17β-HSD1) and/or HSD17B2 (17β-HSD2). As such, they are believed to be potentially useful for the treatment of nonalcoholic or metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (NASH/MASH).
P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is one of several ABC transporters that can pump drugs out of tumor cells and thereby render chemotherapy ineffective. Overexpression of P-gp can give rise to multidrug resistance, making cancers quite difficult to treat. Several inhibitors of P-gp have been described, but none has entered the clinic, mainly because of poor efficacy or adverse reactions.
Although tricomplex pan-RAS (ON) inhibitors, such as RMC-6236, constitute a promising class of therapeutics against RAS-driven cancers, their on-target, off-tumor toxicities challenge the dosing strategy and the safety of drug combinations.
Scynexis Inc. has announced that a novel series of antifungal compounds utilizing its proprietary triterpenoid antifungal platform are among five projects funded by a federal grant awarded to the new accelerator consortium led by researchers from Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
RSS
