Mwyngil Therapeutics Inc. has in-licensed several lead GPR75 modulator molecules and a proprietary cell-surface discovery platform from Expert Systems Inc.
Blocking progesterone receptor (PR) activity has long been viewed as a possible approach to breast cancer prevention. Historically, most supporting evidence came from animal models, epidemiological studies or mechanistic pathway analyses. Now, a team at the University of Manchester has uncovered direct mechanistic and clinical evidence that PR antagonists can reprogram the breast tissue microenvironment, suggesting a novel avenue for reducing breast cancer risk in women.
Enara Bio Ltd. is staking a claim to having validated the first in a new class of tumor antigens derived from unannotated regions of the dark genome, describing its findings in talks and posters being presented at the Society of Immunotherapy in Cancer (SITC) meeting in National Harbor, Md., Nov. 5-9, 2025.
Neok Bio Inc. was formed earlier this year and is already on schedule to file an IND in a few months for its two bispecific antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) to treat various types of tumors. The biotech got a leg up on development from its principal investor, Korean biotech ABL Bio Inc., where the discovery work was accomplished.
Simcere Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has described stachybotrys microspore triprenyl phenols (SMTPs) acting as plasminogen activators reported to be useful for the treatment of thromboembolism.
Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. and Shanghai Hansoh Biomedical Co. Ltd. have divulged pentacyclic derivatives reported to be useful for the treatment of autoimmune disease.
Acrivon Therapeutics Inc. has developed a new WEE1/PKMYT1 inhibitor, ACR-2316, to overcome the limitations observed with previous WEE1 and PKMYT1 inhibitors in the treatment of cancer.
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