Treeline Biosciences Inc. has disclosed macrocyclic compounds acting as RAS inhibitors that are potentially useful for the treatment of pancreatic cancer (ductal adenocarcinoma) and melanoma.
Impact Therapeutics (Shanghai) Inc. has prepared and tested Wee1-like protein kinase (Wee1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Researchers from Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. detailed the preclinical characterization of TAK-188, a first-in-class anti-CCR8 antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) designed to selectively target CCR8+ Tregs, alleviating immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment.
Biolojic Design Ltd. has reported preclinical data for its antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) BD-200, developed using an AI-guided antibody engineering platform named Multibody.
Conventional mouse models are not susceptible to hepatitis A virus (HAV) because murine adaptor protein MAVS is not efficiently cleaved by HAV protease precursors, so intact type I interferon (IFN) signaling blocks productive infection. However, IFN receptor knockout (KO) mice are susceptible to HAV infection and show hallmark features of the infection, having recently been identified as a potential disease model. Researchers from Genematrix Inc. aimed to determine whether nonclinical efficacy studies can be performed in small animal models.
A group led by researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital established a scalable and reproducible model of paclitaxel-induced axon degeneration and neurotoxicity in human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived sensory neurons.
Harbour Biomed has gained IND clearance from the FDA for HBM-7004, enabling the initiation of a first-in-human phase I trial in subjects with advanced solid tumors.
Parcelbio has raised $13 million in seed financing to continue its development of a new class of potent and durable mRNA medicines. The financing will support development of Parcelbio’s proprietary APEXm (Amplified and Prolonged EXpression mRNA) platform and advance its pipeline, including its lead in vivo CAR T program for autoimmune disease.
Arrivent Biopharma Inc. has obtained IND clearance from the FDA for ARR-002 (AV-P138-ADC), an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) with an initial focus in ovarian and endometrial cancers and broader therapeutic potential across solid tumors. A phase I trial is expected to open in the second half of the year.
A designed chimeric virus induced broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) against the macaque equivalent of HIV. The strategy works in two steps: first it uses an envelope protein (Env) with a mutation that reduces the glycan shield that makes it invisible to the immune system, and then it exposes the part of the protein most likely to generate these antibodies capable of blocking many variants of the virus. The macaques developed potent and diverse antibodies with this approach, which pave the way for the development of an HIV-1 vaccine.
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