Drug Discovery

Lilly’s RET inhibitor LOXO-292 receives FDA priority review

Lilly’s RET inhibitor LOXO-292 receives FDA priority review

Lilly recently announced that its RET inhibitor, selpercatinib (loxo-292), has been granted priority review status by the U.S. FDA and is expected to accelerate its approval for the treatment of […]

p53 target new drug! Aprea’s Blood Cancer Combination Therapy Receives FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation

p53 target new drug! Aprea’s Blood Cancer Combination Therapy Receives FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation

Aprea Therapeutics is a Boston-based biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative cancer therapies that reactivate the tumor suppressor protein p53. Recently, the company announced that the U.S. food […]

New target for Alzheimer’s disease-MSUT2

New target for Alzheimer’s disease-MSUT2

After A string of disappointing clinical trials targeting the amyloid β-protein(Aβ), researchers in the field of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are paying more attention to the tau protein, another culprit in the disease. Like Aβ, […]

JAA: Oleander may be effective in treating HTLV-1 virus infection

JAA: Oleander may be effective in treating HTLV-1 virus infection

In a new study, researchers from Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found that oleandrin can stop the spread of HTLV-1 by targeting a […]

What are the functions of Rapamycin? (II)

What are the functions of Rapamycin? (II)

PLoS Biol: Scientists reveal new mechanism of Rapamycin. doi: 10.1371 / journal.pbio.3000252 Recently, in a research report published in PLoS Biology, scientists from the University of Michigan revealed a new […]

What are the functions of Rapamycin? (I)

What are the functions of Rapamycin? (I)

Rapamycin (RAPA), also known as “sirolimus”, was first discovered by scientists in the soil of Easter Island, Chile in 1975 due to its strong antifungal properties. Rapamycin is a macrolide […]

Durvalumab and Pabolizumab for lung cancer treatment

Durvalumab and Pabolizumab for lung cancer treatment

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a rapidly developing, invasive lung cancer that accounts for about 15% of all lung cancer cases. Among them, about three-quarters of patients with small […]

New drug for alopecia areata

New drug for alopecia areata

Concert Pharma recently released the results of its phase II clinical trial evaluating the dose range of the experimental deuterated CTP-543 for patients with moderate to severe alopecia areata, an […]

“Opportunities and Challenges” in the development of the HDACs drugs for cancers

“Opportunities and Challenges” in the development of the HDACs drugs for cancers

Despite the popularity in the development of histone deacelytase (HDAC) inhibitors, the indications of the five already approved HDAC inhibitor drugs on the market are limited to peripheral T-cell lymphoma […]

PD-L1

PD-L1

Introduction Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is a protein that is highly expressed on the surface of many cancer cells. As PD-L1’s receptor, PD-1 belongs to the immunoglobulin superfamily and can […]