Aberrant signaling by fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs) drives tumor cell survival and proliferation in several cancers, making them promising therapeutic targets.
HER3 overexpression in solid tumors is tied to poor prognosis, concretely in breast and non-small-cell lung cancers, where treatment resistance often occurs upon using targeted therapy, highlighting the need for novel targeted therapies against HER3. Since its expression is much higher in tumor than normal cells, HER3 is a robust candidate for antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) therapy.
“I think we’ve come a long way in understanding the importance of this biology. We know it affects men and women, children and adults,” Paul Mischel told the audience during his plenary talk at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR 2025). “It’s very prevalent, it’s very devastating. It creates resistance. And we’ve learned some very fundamental rules about this biology that are driving it.”
Qianhangjiang Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has divulged somatostatin peptide analogues acting as somatostatin receptor type 2 (SSTR2) ligands reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and acromegaly.
Summit Therapeutics Inc. has identified proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) compounds comprising an E3 ubiquitin ligase binding moiety coupled to a GTPase KRAS (G12D) targeting moiety through a linker acting as KRAS (G12D) inhibitors and degradation inducers reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Shanghai Jemincare Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has synthesized ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 1 (USP1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Beijing Primegene Therapeutics Co. Ltd. has disclosed serine/threonine-protein kinase Nek7 inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, stroke, osteoarthritis, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease, among others.
Researchers from Heidelberg Pharma AG have presented a new antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) that shows promise for treating pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). The ADC, called hRS7 ATAC, targets trophoblast cell surface antigen 2 (TROP2), which is overexpressed in most pancreatic tumors and is associated with aggressive disease and poor prognosis.
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