Immunotherapy-based cancer vaccines could permanently kill tumors by stimulating immune cells in multiple ways. At the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT), researchers presented their advances in this field with different techniques in the scientific symposium “Novel nucleic acid and cell-based vaccines for cancer,” organized by the infectious diseases and vaccines committee. Read More
At last week’s ASGCT meeting, Adicet Bio Inc. presented a new CAR T-cell therapy, ADI-270, for the treatment of CD70-expressing tumors. ADI-270 uses CD27 as the binding domain and 4-1BB co-stimulatory domains plus CD3. Read More
Aqilion AB has expanded its pipeline through the nomination of protein kinase C θ (PKCθ) as the target of a new immunology project. The PKCθ kinase is believed to be centrally involved in the pathogenesis of T-cell-mediated inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Read More
Pheast Therapeutics Inc. has announced the presentation of preclinical data for PHST-001, a therapeutic monoclonal antibody targeting CD24, a macrophage checkpoint. Read More
Macrophage colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF-1R) is a transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptor expressed in brain microglia, and mutations in the CSF1R gene have been linked to adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP). Read More
The recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a part of the Unitedhealth Group, crippled reimbursement claims processing for thousands of providers for several weeks and potentially exposed troves of patient data. Congressional committees are investigating the attack, its scope, and Unitedhealth’s response. Please take a few minutes to fill out this short survey to help BioWorld understand how your company is responding to these threats. You can click through to the questions here. Read More
Neosphere Biotechnologies GmbH has entered into a collaboration with Kymera Therapeutics Inc. that seeks to unlock undrugged or poorly drugged disease-causing protein targets that can be addressed by targeted protein degradation. Read More
Scorpion Therapeutics Inc. has found compounds acting as cellular tumor antigen p53 (TP53) (Y220C mutant) activators reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer. Read More
4M Therapeutics Inc. has announced the presentation of preclinical data on its small-molecule glycogen synthase kinase-3β (GSK-3β) inhibitors in models of bipolar disorder. Read More
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC has patented potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily C member 1 (Kv3.1; KCNC1) activators reported to be useful for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Read More
Fogpharma Inc. and Artbio Inc. have established a collaboration to co-develop a new class of α-radioligand therapeutics to maximize efficacy for patients with multiple types of cancer. Read More
Researchers from Vividion Therapeutics Inc. and partner Roche Holdings AG have published the discovery and preclinical characterization of the novel covalent allosteric inhibitor of WRN, VVD-133214 (RO-7589831). Read More
A new adeno-associated viral vector-driven CR2-CR1 fusion protein, named KRIYA-825, was tested in vivo in mice with sodium iodate-induced geographic atrophy. Read More
Arvinas Operations Inc. has synthesized proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTACs) compounds comprising an E3 ubiquitin ligase-binding moiety coupled to a B-cell lymphoma 6 protein (BCL6)-targeting moiety through a linker. Read More
