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Molecules of the Month – June 2023

Drug Hunter

With the popular success of diabetes and weight-loss peptide drugs from Novo (e.g. 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 Heptares and Captor Therapeutics Enter Strategic Technology Collaboration Focused on Targeted GPCR Degradation as Novel Approach for Drug Design

The Pharma Data

. Unique combination of novel technologies to enhance GPCR drug discovery and expand capabilities into wider drug target universe. Captor’s Optigradeä platform is focused on improving the selectivity and performance of first-generation degrader drugs. TOKYO and CAMBRIDGE, England , Dec.

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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

Ion channels represent a large but under-exploited class of drug targets beyond G protein-coupled proteins (GPCRs). Collaboration combines Sosei Heptares’ leading structure-based drug design platform with Metrion Biosciences’ ion channel expertise.