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AI company raises $3m to develop antibodies targeting GPCRs

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Antiverse has successfully identified functional antibody clusters targeting two G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), both displaying versatile binding profiles and nanomolar affinity. The company has raised $3 million in funding, which will enable in-house development of the antibodies showing the highest affinity blocking function.

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News from AACR 2024: Sunday’s highlights

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Following this, Benjamin Cravatt, Professor and the Norton Gilula Chair in Biology and Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute, discussed activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) and its use in discovering drug candidates for cancer-relevant proteins.

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UK company identifies potential new treatment for lupus

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Domainex has revealed human ex vivo data indicating that DMXD-011 could be effective in treating interferonopathies such as lupus, Sjögren’s syndrome, and scleroderma. The drug candidate is an inhibitor of protein kinases TBK1 and IKK-epsilon, which previous studies suggest should be highly-effective in the treatment of inflammatory diseases.

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Turning science into business: An optimised alternative to antibodies

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DS: What motivated you and Dr David Bunka, CTO, to create Aptamer and did you imagine you would one day be operating on such a global scale?    I quickly recognised the commercial value of aptamers as being able to address the gap in the market where antibodies fail to perform, and together we established the business to begin aptamer development.

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Conversations from ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 2024 

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For example, progress made in developing gene mutant-specific inhibitors, antibody-drug conjugates (ADC), or cellular therapies. In vivo, METTL1 inhibitors induce tumour growth inhibition in both immune-deficient and immune-competent mouse strains. We were there to present the latest findings from our research.

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Company launches ADC Phase I trial in solid tumours

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Dosing has begun in a Phase I clinical study evaluating BAT8008, an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) that targets Trop2. Key objectives of the study are to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), recommended Phase II dose (RP2D), and to evaluate the pharmacokinetics and preliminary efficacy in patients with advanced solid tumours.

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Immunotherapy partnership advances space medicine research

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The research will include studies to assess the effects of Vaxxinity’s active immunotherapies on undisclosed proteins implicated with bone and muscle growth through in vitro and in vivo experiments, and animal models established by UCF.