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Molecules of the Month – June 2023

Drug Hunter

vorasidenib – An oral first-in-class dual IDH1/IDH2 inhibitor with efficacy in Phase III trials for IDH-mutant grade 2 gliomas, discovered through structure-based drug design (SBDD) of a prior mIDH inhibitor, developed by Agios and Servier.

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Sosei teams up with Abbvie on neurological drug discovery  

Drug Discovery World

Biopharmaceutical group Sosei will work together with AbbVie on a drug discovery project to discover, develop and commercialise small molecules that target neurological diseases. . The new agreement will see Sosei Heptares conduct and fund R&D activities through the completion of Investigational New Drug (IND)-enabling studies.

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Sosei Heptares scores $5m milestone payment from Pfizer

The Pharma Data

The collaboration has leveraged Sosei’s StaR technology and Structure-based Drug Design (SBDD) capabilities to design oral small molecules that modulate different G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) targets across multiple disease areas.

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Sosei Heptares’ COVID-19 Program Identifies Potent Broad Spectrum Anti-Viral Small Molecules for Further Development

The Pharma Data

20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Sosei Group Corporation (“the Company”) (TSE: 4565) announces a progress update for its R&D program focused on the design and development of novel drugs targeting the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and to treat COVID-19. . TOKYO and CAMBRIDGE, England , Nov.

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Sosei Heptares and Captor Therapeutics Enter Strategic Technology Collaboration Focused on Targeted GPCR Degradation as Novel Approach for Drug Design

The Pharma Data

Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is an approach whereby the body’s natural process for degrading proteins is diverted using small molecule drugs to eliminate disease-causing proteins. Captor’s Optigradeä platform is focused on improving the selectivity and performance of first-generation degrader drugs.

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Drug discovery agreement will combine AI and cryo-EM analysis

Drug Discovery World

Iktos’ Makya generative AI technology aims to bring new insights and directions into the molecular discovery process by automatically designing virtual novel molecules that have desired activities for treating a given disease.

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Sosei Heptares to Explore Structure-based Drug Discovery (SBDD) Approaches to Ion Channels through Strategic Technology Collaboration with Metrion Biosciences

The Pharma Data

. Joint drug discovery program to focus on a single ion channel that is a well-validated target for neurological diseases. They are well established drug targets, particularly in neurological and cardiovascular diseases, but many remain undrugged or poorly drugged, and may be tractable to structure-based approaches.