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News and Trends 16 Dec 2022

HKUMed discovery may lead to therapeutic targets for cancer

Researchers from the Department of Clinical Oncology, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) have discovered a novel subtype of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)-positive nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and EBV-associated immunosuppression in the tumor-microenvironment (TME). These findings have provided novel insights into the traditional NPC pathogenesis model and highlights EBV-specific […]

December 16, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 15 Dec 2022

Solve Therapeutics launches to tackle cancer

Solve Therapeutics, Inc. (SolveTx), an oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company, has launched with the mission of developing novel antibody-based therapies targeting tumor-specific antigens. The company’s formation reunites the former VelosBio Inc. team. SolveTx is fully operational with more than 25 employees and is actively pursuing discovery and development efforts at its 10,000-square-foot laboratory in San Diego. Solve […]

December 15, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

STORM Therapeutics closes $30M Series B financing

STORM Therapeutics Ltd., which is working on discovering and developing novel small molecule therapies targeting RNA modifying enzymes (RMEs) for oncology and other diseases, has successfully completed a $30 million Series B financing round. The financing was co-led by existing investors M Ventures, Pfizer Ventures, Taiho Ventures LLC, Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) and new investors […]

December 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

ImaginAb launches trial to study neoadjuvant immunotherapy

ImaginAb Inc., in collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA), has launched an investigator-initiated phase II trial. It will explore the efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment of stage III surgically resectable melanoma through use of CD8 ImmunoPET. ImaginAb is a global biotechnology company focused on […]

December 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

Etcembly reveals breakthrough in optimizing TCR assets

Etcembly has announced the successful prediction and optimization of multiple T cell receptor (TCR) assets for targeting leukemias and solid tumors. The company’s machine learning platform EMLy (Etcembly machine learning) enables AI based engineering of novel TCRs from the complete theoretical TCR repertoire. The unification of machine-learning-based optimization with empirical validation has facilitated the rapid […]

December 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

Asieris doses first patient in bladder cancer diagnostic trial

Asieris Pharmaceuticals has announced that Hexvix, a drug used for bladder cancer diagnosis, completed dosing for the first patient in its real-world clinical study at Hainan General Hospital Lecheng Branch. Hexvix has been approved in the U.S. and many European countries. The combined use of Hexvix and blue light cystoscopy (BLC) for the management of […]

December 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Interview 14 Dec 2022

Sibylla Biotech: how physicists met biologists to discover new drugs

Discovering new drugs remains an inefficient, trial and error-based process. The founding team behind the Italian startup Sibylla Biotech explain how their interdisciplinary approach can speed up drug discovery in the protein degradation space. Protein degradation is a hot field in the biotech industry, with many pharmaceutical companies forging lucrative deals with protein degradation players. […]

December 14, 2022 - 9 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

OncoHost to launch PROphet for non-small cell lung cancer in the U.S. in 2023

Ofer Sharon is the CEO of OncoHost, a biotech company in the precision oncology space. A physician by training, Sharon has leveraged his experience in pharma drug development and entrepreneurship to lead OncoHost through the development of PROphet, the company’s host response profiling platform, which will launch in the U.S. for non-small cell lung cancer […]

December 14, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 13 Dec 2022

Therabest and Glycotope to assess breast cancer combination treatment

Therabest USA. Inc, Therabest Korea and Glycotope GmbH have signed an agreement to assess the clinical development of Therabest’s EiNK (enhanced iPSC-derived NK) cell therapy, TB-100, in combination with Glycotope’s immuno-cytokine, GT-00AxIL15 in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients. NK (natural killer) cell therapies from various cell sources have demonstrated exciting results in early clinical trials […]

December 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 12 Dec 2022

OSE Immunotherapeutics announces latest acute lymphoblastic leukemia data

OSE Immunotherapeutics SA has presented the latest preclinical data on the use of its anti-IL-7 receptor (IL-7R) antagonist OSE-127 for the treatment of B- and T-Cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B- and T-ALL). The information was provided at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. The preclinical data on OSE-127 presented […]

December 12, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 12 Dec 2022

Enterome completes patient enrollment for recurrent glioblastoma study

Enterome has completed patient enrollment in its phase 2 clinical trial (ROSALIE) evaluating its lead OncoMimics candidate, EO2401, in combination with an immune checkpoint inhibitor (nivolumab) +/- an anti-VEGF therapy (bevacizumab) in patients with first progression/recurrence of glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. Enterome is a French clinical stage company developing first-in-class immunomodulatory drugs […]

December 12, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 12 Dec 2022

Step Pharma announces promising pre-clinical cancer data

Step Pharma has announced encouraging pre-clinical data on its first-in-class, highly selective, orally bioavailable CTPS1 inhibitor, STP938. The data were presented at the 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. The data presented by Step Pharma collaborators demonstrates the potential of STP938, a highly selective CTPS1 inhibitor, as a therapeutic […]

December 12, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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HKUMed discovery may lead to therapeutic targets for cancer

Solve Therapeutics launches to tackle cancer

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Etcembly reveals breakthrough in optimizing TCR assets

Asieris doses first patient in bladder cancer diagnostic trial

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OncoHost to launch PROphet for non-small cell lung cancer in the U.S. in 2023

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