Interius Biotherapeutics Inc. has been granted Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) approval and clinical trial notification clearance by Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to begin a first-in-human trial of INT-2104, its lead in vivo CAR candidate for treatment of B-cell malignancies.
Myricx Bio (Myricx Pharma Ltd.), a spin out from Imperial College London and the Francis Crick Institute, has closed a series A financing raising £90 million ($114 million) to support its work focused on the discovery and development of a novel class of payloads for antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs).
Researchers from Oricell Therapeutics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. presented the discovery and preclinical characterization of ORIC-613, a dual-targeting CAR T-cell therapy being developed for the treatment of pancreatic and gastric cancer.
Activation of the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway has recently proven effective as an antiproliferative strategy in glioma and melanoma.
Sichuan Kelun-Biotech Biopharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has synthesized antibody-drug conjugates consisting of anti-B7-H3 antibodies covalently linked to cytotoxic drugs reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Kanvas Biosciences Inc. has raised $12.5 million in additional funding to support development of the company’s spatial biology platform and advance two novel therapeutics in its immuno-oncology program, KAN-001 and KAN-003.
SCG Cell Therapy Pte Ltd. has gained FDA clearance of its IND application to initiate a phase I/II trial of SCG-142, a novel next-generation human papillomavirus (HPV) E7-specific T-cell receptor-engineered T (TCR T)-cell therapy for patients with HPV-associated solid tumors.
Waypoint Bio has raised $14.5 million in seed funding to support its work pioneering novel cell therapies for solid tumors using in vivo spatial pooled screening technology.
The first development candidate has been nominated under a collaboration between Carisma Therapeutics Inc. and Moderna Inc. to discover, develop and commercialize in vivo engineered chimeric antigen receptor monocytes and macrophages (CAR-M) therapeutics for the treatment of cancer.