Sixpeaks Bio AG has emerged from stealth with $30 million in series A financing and a pipeline of therapies for healthy weight loss, including a dual-specific antibody targeting activin type IIA and B receptors for preservation of skeletal muscle mass.
Genmab A/S, in collaboration with Biontech SE, has presented data on a novel OX40 agonist antibody –Hexabody-OX40 (GEN-1055/BNT-315), developed using Genmab’s proprietary Hexabody platform, which promotes the formation of antibody hexamers upon target binding to cell surfaces.
U.S. Precision Medicine Inc. has announced plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) technology to support work on its small-molecule drug candidate for cancer.
Researchers from Uppsala University published data from a study that aimed to reveal and validate cancer vulnerabilities to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). A human Tumor-Immune co-Culture System (TICS), which consisted of primary human lymphocytes from healthy blood donors co-cultured with human cancer cells, was optimized to perform mechanistic investigation of clinically approved ICB drugs.
Shanghai Leadingtac Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has divulged proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) compounds comprising an E3 ubiquitin ligase binding moiety covalently linked to a GTPase KRAS (G12D mutant) targeting moiety reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Chengdu Zeling Biomedical Technology Co. Ltd. has identified poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP-1; ARTD1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Shanghai Rulink Biopharma Co. Ltd. has synthesized integrin αvβ1, αvβ6 and/or αvβ8 antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis.
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