Peptidream Inc. and Novartis Pharma AG have expanded their peptide-drug conjugate discovery collaboration announced in 2019, adding additional peptide radioligand therapies and other programs.
Replay Holdings LLC and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report that the FDA has cleared the IND application for PRAME TCR/IL-15 NK (SY-307), an engineered T-cell receptor natural killer (TCR-NK) cell therapy for relapsed/refractory myeloid malignancies.
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is a tick-borne disease that results from an infection with the SFTS virus, with a case fatality rate of 6.1% to 21.8%. Identifying critically ill patients at the early stages is crucial for clinical management.
Researchers from State University of New Jersey (Rutgers) and Oklahoma State University have published preclinical data for a novel a SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease (PLpro) inhibitor being developed as an antiviral candidate for the treatment of COVID-19.
A group of scientists from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) have overturned a scientific dogma by demonstrating, for the first time, that DNA mutations are not essential for the development of cancer. The researchers temporarily disrupted gene silencing led by Polycomb proteins in fruit flies, and observed that this could produce tumors caused only by epigenetic changes, without permanent changes to the genome.
Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase α (PI3Kα) (H1047R mutant) inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of cancer have been described in a recent Scorpion Therapeutics Inc. patent.
Augusta University has patented NSAID derivatives acting as prostaglandin G/H synthase 1 (PTGS1; COX-1) and/or COX-2 inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of inflammation and pain.
Work at Duke University has led to the discovery of prodrugs of UDP-3-O-(R-3-hydroxymyristoyl)-N-acetylglucosamine deacetylase (LpxC) (bacterial) inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of cancer and gram-negative bacterial infections.