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Designing antibodies to think before they bind

Drug Target Review

Engineering against resistance: the case of AP402 HER2-positive breast cancer already presents a therapeutic challenge, marked by aggressive tumour growth driven by overexpression of the HER2 receptor. The outcome is a bispecific designed to overcome resistance and activate the immune system precisely where it is needed.

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Outsmarting immune suppression through GPCR innovation

Drug Target Review

These CCR8+ Tregs are known to suppress immune responses in the tumour microenvironment (TME), allowing cancers to grow unchecked. “DT-7012 DT-7012 retains its depletion activity even in high CCL1-concentrated environments – an essential property not shared by most competitor antibodies currently in clinical development.”

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Lilly and Kumquat Biosciences Announce Collaboration to Discover and Develop Novel Small Molecules that Stimulate Tumor-Specific Immune Responses

The Pharma Data

Loxo Oncology at Lilly, a research and development group of Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY), and Kumquat Biosciences today announced an exclusive collaboration focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of potential novel small molecules that stimulate tumor-specific immune responses.

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4-1BB and the critical importance of local control

SugarCone Biotech

[link] Immunity is complex and can be dangerous when exploited clinically, as demonstrated by the lethal administration of TNF, or anti-CD40L antibody (Biogen) or CAR-T cells expressing the CD16 Fc-receptor (Unum), among many other examples. This is the T cell type most closely associated with anti-tumor immune responses.

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The potential of CD24 in cancer immunotherapy

Drug Target Review

This interaction inhibits inflammation and immune activation, and in particular prevents macrophages from phagocytosing and destroying cancer cells. By blocking CD24 with an antibody drug, our goal is to powerfully reactivate the anti-cancer immune response and drive therapeutic efficacy.

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Targeting the immunotherapy potential of cytokines IL-12 and IL-18 with new advancements in protein engineering

Drug Target Review

Natural killer (NK) cells are another immune cell type that, as the name suggests, also have potent cell-killing activity, and have a well-known role in the anti-tumour immune response. In the context of a tumour microenvironment, Tregs are often present in high numbers, preventing an effective immune response to the tumour.

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Unveiling neoantigen-directed cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

This exclusive interview with Dr Sharon Benzeno, Chief Commercial Officer, Immune Medicine at Adaptive Biotechnologies, unveils some ground-breaking research on T- cell therapy for cancer , which has seen the first TCR-based therapeutic candidate progress to clinical development, offering promising advancements in innovative cancer treatments.

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