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Leveraging agonist antibodies to address immunological diseases

Drug Target Review

Agonist antibodies of immune checkpoint regulators These represent a groundbreaking class of immunotherapeutic agents that mimic the natural function of endogenous ligands by binding to specific cell-surface receptors. In these conditions, the goal of therapy is typically to suppress or mitigate immune activity.

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Cancer immunotherapy candidate provokes powerful dual response in cancer and immune cells

Broad Institute

AbbVie and Calico discovered the molecule, called ABBV-CLS-484 , after TIDE researchers at Broad identified the PTPN2 gene as a promising cancer immunotherapy target in 2017. It still sort of stuns me that we went from discovering a target in 2017 to testing drugs in patients starting in 2020,” Yates said.

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Natural killer cells: Looking good for cancer therapy

Drug Target Review

NK cells are among the front line of protection from infected and abnormal cells as part of the ‘innate immune response’. They recognise ‘cell stress molecules’ on the surface of infected, old, injured and cancerous cells without the need for complex pre-stimulation signals of the adaptive immune system (eg, T cells).

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CAR-NK cells: promising for cancer therapy

Drug Target Review

NK cells are among the front line of protection from infected and abnormal cells as part of the ‘innate immune response’. They recognise ‘cell stress molecules’ on the surface of infected, old, injured and cancerous cells without the need for complex pre-stimulation signals of the adaptive immune system (eg, T cells).

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#WhyIScience Q&A: A microbiologist and immunologist finds links between our own microbes and disease mechanisms

Broad Institute

He investigated using probiotic bacteria as a possible treatment for C. After completing his PhD in 2017, Brown joined Xavier’s lab as a postdoctoral researcher and has been at the Broad ever since, now as a staff scientist. difficile colitis, a severe bacterial infection in the colon that frequently resists antibiotics.

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Merck Strikes $1B+ Deal to Leverage Janux’s T Cell Engager Program Against Cancer

The Pharma Data

San Diego-based Janux Therapeutics forged a strategic collaboration with pharma giant Merck potentially worth more than $1 billion to develop next-generation T cell engager immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer. Janux technology can be applied to immunotherapies that target all three stages of an anti-tumor immune response.

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Women in Stem with Dr Christine Schuberth-Wagner

Drug Target Review

Our research demonstrated that GDF-15 acts as a versatile tool for tumours to inhibit the mounting of an effective antitumoral immune response at various steps of its process, including antigen presentation, immune cell activation, and their migration and infiltration into the tumour. in North America) in late 2017.

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