Currently, cancer therapy trial-and-error methodology is inefficient and unsustainable. Oncology is the worst therapeutic area for drug trial success; only 3.4% of drugs that enter phase I end up being FDA approved, and 57% fail due to poor drug efficacy in trials. Building tools that may aid in predicting an individual’s response to a specific therapy may help in reducing costs, guesswork, and importantly improve the outcome of patients and accelerate new drug development. Read More
Privately held Dyno Therapeutics Inc. has added another notch to its adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors development portfolio in a deal with the Roche Group that includes $50 million up front and ultimately could top $1 billion. Dyno will help in developing next-generation AAV vectors, optimized by artificial intelligence, to target neurological diseases. Read More
The abscopal effect occurs when therapy leads to the regression of metastases distant from the target tumor. In the current study, researchers from INSERM aimed to evaluate the abscopal effect potentially inducted by the use the targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) candidate, [131I]ICF-01012, which has been previously shown to target only pigmented metastases. Read More
The FDA has granted orphan drug designation to Modalis Therapeutics Corp.’s MDL-101, a novel epigenetic editing therapy being developed for the treatment of congenital muscular dystrophy type 1a (LAMA2-CMD), a severe, early-onset muscular dystrophy caused by the absence of the LAMA2 protein. Read More
Bayer AG has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Dewpoint Therapeutics Inc. for a heart disease program to treat dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) patients characterized by specific mutations. Read More
Aevisbio Inc. and the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology have jointly developed new compounds targeting protein cereblon (CRBN) reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer. Read More
An Acerta Pharma BV patent describes new 1-H-pyrrolo[2,3-c]pyridine compounds acting as menin (MEN1)/MLL interaction inhibitors and thus reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer. Read More
Cancer Research UK and Kisoji Biotechnology Inc. have signed an agreement to bring Kisoji's naked anti-TROP2 antibody, KJ-103, into a first-in-human trial. KJ-103 is a single domain antibody that binds to a unique epitope on TROP2. Read More
Jiangsu Xingsheng Xinhui Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has synthesized new membrane-associated tyrosine- and threonine-specific Cdc2-inhibitory kinase (PKMYT1) inhibitors that are potentially useful for the treatment of cancer. Read More
Delta-like ligand 3 (DLL3) is a highly relevant target for radiopharmaceutical therapy due to its expression in more than 85% of tumors of patients with small-cell lung cancer. Read More
Beijing Primegene Therapeutics Co. Ltd. has patented macrocyclic compounds acting as non-receptor tyrosine-protein kinase TYK2 (JH2 domain) allosteric inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of neurodegeneration, cancer and autoimmune disease. Read More
Wee1 and PKMYT1 are two kinases involved in DNA damage repair. The former is located in the nucleus and the latter in the endoplasmic reticulum. Several selective inhibitors of Wee1 or PKMYT1 have been tested in the clinical setting as monotherapy or in combination with other drugs. Read More
The serotonin 5-HT2B receptor is widely expressed in the brain, including on serotoninergic, GABAergic and dopaminergic neurons, on astrocytes and microglia, and neuronal fibers of the frontal cortex and cerebellum. Read More
Shanghai Jemincare Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. patents report Werner syndrome ATP-dependent helicase (WRN; RECQ3; RECQL2) inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of cancer. Read More
