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How GPCR agonists, including antibodies, are shaping the future of metabolic care

Drug Target Review

Confo Therapeutics , led by CEO Dr Cedric Ververken, is at the forefront of developing innovative GPCR-targeted therapies using its proprietary ConfoBody ® platform. The MC4R-based ConfoGen was used to immunize llamas, resulting in an immune response that generated a highly diverse panel of MC4R-specific agonists.

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Lead Pharma Teams with Roche on Oral Small Molecules for Immune-Mediated Diseases

The Pharma Data

Lead Pharma has entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Roche , hoping to lead the way in the development of oral small molecules for immune-mediated diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and inflammatory bowel diseases. . This includes therapies against the nuclear receptor ROR?t,

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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. Often immunological diseases involve deficiencies or dysregulation of immune function.

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

Broad Institute

By Allessandra DiCorato October 4, 2023 Credit: AbbVie The new small molecule inhibitor (green) sits inside the PTPN2 protein, where acidic sites are marked in red and basic sites are marked in blue. A new small-molecule drug candidate being tested in an early-stage clinical trial aims to improve patient responses to immunotherapy.

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Unlocking Undruggable Targets: Shifting Paradigms in Modern Drug Discovery

DrugBank

One approach is to look beyond the traditional drug molecule. Researchers are experimenting with biologics—larger biological molecules that can do things small molecules can't, like targeting larger, more complex structures on cell surfaces or even inside cells.

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The power of combinations in blood cancers

Drug Target Review

2 It is this complexity that necessitates powerful, targeted combination therapies. 4, 5 More recently, new combination regimens have emerged that incorporate targeted therapies to treat a variety of blood cancers, including multiple myeloma (MM), chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) and acute myelogenous leukaemia (AML).

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3 Characteristics of a Successful Cell and Gene Therapy Nonclinical Program

The Premier Consulting Blog

Development of cell and gene therapies is growing rapidly, given the major advances in genomic technologies and increasing scientific understanding of genetic regulation and immunology. This blog will outline three characteristics of a successful nonclinical program to support entry into clinical trials for a cell or gene therapy product.