Wigen Biomedicine Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has described serine/threonine-protein kinase ULK1 inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Scientists at Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology and Oncord Bio Inc. have divulged molecular glue degraders targeting protein cereblon (CRBN) and acting as eukaryotic peptide chain release factor GTP-binding subunit ERF3A (GSPT1) degradation inducers reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, graft-vs.-host disease, leprosy and inflammatory disorders.
Nikang Therapeutics Inc. has identified proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) compounds comprising an E3 ubiquitin ligase binding moiety covalently linked to a cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) targeting moiety through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Ribometrix Inc. has synthesized eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E (eiF4E) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, fibrosis, inflammatory disorders and allergy.
Scientists at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou Vigonvita Life Sciences Co. Ltd. and The Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have disclosed NMDA receptor antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of neurological disorders.
Relay Therapeutics Inc. has disclosed three new programs from its existing preclinical pipeline, including two novel programs from its genetic disease portfolio and a potentially first-in-class NRAS-selective inhibitor.
KRAS is the most commonly mutated oncogene in solid tumors. Mutations are present in about 30% of cases overall, more than 95% of pancreatic cancer cases, and about 40% of colon cancer cases.
University of Basel investigators have reported an association between mutations in the COQ8B gene and nonsyndromic retinitis pigmentosa (RP). RP is a genetically heterogeneous retinal degeneration disorder, which has been found to be associated with mutations in more than 70 genes. However, there are still cases for which no genetic cause has been found.