Peptide-drug conjugate

Salivary glands
#Avacta #Head and neck cancer #Oncology #Peptide-drug conjugate #Phase I trial

Avacta’s peptide drug conjugate shrinks tumours in salivary gland cancer

Avacta has announced positive early efficacy data for its peptide drug conjugate, AVA6000, demonstrating clinically meaningful tumour shrinkage in patients with salivary gland cancer (SGC).  AVA6000 consists of doxorubicin chemotherapy conjugated with Avacta’s pre|CISION peptide, specifically cleaved by fibroblast activation protein-alpha (FAP) in the tumour microenvironment. Read More

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Peptide
#Cybrexa Therapeutics #Oncology #Ovarian cancer #Peptide-drug conjugate #Peptides #Phase II trial

Peptide-drug conjugate demonstrates antitumour activity

Cybrexa Therapeutics has dosed the first patient in a Phase II trial of its peptide-drug conjugate (PDC) CBX-12 in ovarian cancer. The primary target patient population for the study is women with platinum-resistant or refractory ovarian cancer who are naïve to TOP1-targeted agents. Read More

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