Spima Therapeutics SAS has announced its launch with a focus on developing innovative peptide-based immunotherapies for difficult-to-reach targets, especially protein-protein interactions.
Cartherics Pty Ltd. has raised over its target of AU$15 million (US$10.3 million) in an oversubscribed private financing round. Funding will support a clinical trial for CTH-401, the company’s lead cell therapy for ovarian cancer, and expand its pipeline to include other diseases.
Ichnos Glenmark Innovation (IGI) has announced a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to evaluate IGI’s selective, orally active Casitas B-lineage lymphoma b (Cbl-b) inhibitor GRC-65327.
B-cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) is an essential transcriptional factor for the humoral immune response. However, genomic deregulation of BCL6 contributes to the development of different types of lymphoma such as diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
In the year’s fourth-largest deal, Prime Medicine Inc. will collaborate with Bristol Myers Squibb Co. in a research collaboration and license agreement totaling $3.61 billion. The two companies plan to develop reagents for ex vivo T-cell therapies. While the programs and targets have yet to be disclosed, BMS is expanding its CAR T development, begun more than five years ago, with this deal.
Jiangsu Alphamab Biopharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. is out-licensing its anti-HER2 bispecific antibody-drug conjugate, JSKN-003, to JMT-Bio Technology Co. for China rights in a deal worth up to ¥3.08 billion (US$439 million) plus sales royalties.
Scientists at Inventisbio Co. Ltd. and Inventisbio LLC have divulged phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase α (PI3Kα) (E545K mutant) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum and congenital lipomatous overgrowth, vascular malformations, epidermal naevi and skeletal abnormalities (CLOVES syndrome).
Tessellate Bio BV has announced it is collaborating with CMRI (Children’s Medical Research Institute) and Omico (Australian Genomic Cancer Medicine Centre) to advance the understanding of the prevalence of alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) across tumor types and the genetic factors involved.
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