CDR-Life Inc. has announced FDA clearance of an IND application for CDR-404, its lead program in development as a precision immunotherapy for solid tumors.
NK Celltech Co. Ltd. has announced FDA clearance for a clinical trial of NK-010, a nongenetically modified allogeneic peripheral blood natural killer (NK) cell drug.
Strand Therapeutics Inc. has received IND clearance from the FDA to initiate a first-in-human phase I trial of STX-001 as a new approach for the treatment of solid tumors.
Simultaneous inhibition of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling pathway and histone deacetylase (HDAC) provides synergistic efficacy in the treatment of hematological malignancies.
What had been viewed as a major catalyst for Gilead Sciences Inc. going into 2024 turned into a disappointment on the stock market, as antibody-drug conjugate Trodelvy (sacituzumab govitecan) failed to meet the overall survival primary endpoint in the phase III Evoke-01 study in previously treated metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Despite treatment with temozolomide and radiation therapy, patients with glioblastoma usually develop refractory disease, and thus have a poor prognosis (median overall survival of 15 months); here, the DNA damage response (DDR) mechanism shown by cancer cells plays a key role.
Chinese researchers have presented data on a novel six-gene prognostic risk model for breast cancer based on data from the The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database.
T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive form of leukemia that accounts for around 25% of ALL cases. In recent years, novel strategies have emerged to reduce the dependence on intensive chemotherapy or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, but there is still a need for new options with better efficacy in this setting.
The identification of novel immunotherapeutic targets for the treatment of biliary tract cancer (BTC) is still a need. It has been reported that galectin-9 (GAL-9) is expressed in BTC and induces immunosuppressive effects, such as inducing apoptosis in T cells when binding to its receptor TIM-3.
Researchers from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have reported the discovery of SJ-3149, a novel selective CK1α degrader being developed for the treatment of cancer.