September 18, 2025

Possible strategy for neuroblastoma

FOCUS on Neuroblastoma. In a paper just out in Nature Communications, Singh et al. report: “To better understand the cellular plasticity of neuroblastoma in chemoresistance, we […]
September 4, 2025

Protease activator drug approval

FOCUS on Drug Approvals. On August 6 the FDA granted accelerated approval to Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ Dordaviprone (TIC10 or ONC-201) for patients with diffuse midline glioma harboring […]
August 16, 2025

HER2 inhibitor drug approval

FOCUS on Drug Approvals. On August 8 the FDA granted accelerated approval to Boehringer Ingelheim’s Zongertinib (BI 1810631) for adults with unresectable or metastatic non-squamous non-small […]
July 28, 2025

PI3K / AKT / mTOR inhibition for breast cancer

FOCUS on Clinical Trials. Today Celcuity announced the results of a Phase-3 clinical trial of Gedatolisib plus fulvestrant in patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative, PIK3CA wild-type locally […]
July 21, 2025

Cancer research breakthrough

FOCUS on New Drug Targets: Epithelial-to-mesenchymal (EMT) transition is widely recognized as a cell-intrinsic process that augments the metastatic potential of cancer cells by enhancing motility […]
June 26, 2025

NSCLC drug approval

FOCUS on Drug Approvals. On June 23rd, the FDA approved datopotamab deruxtecan-dlnk (AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Datroway) for non-small cell lung cancer. The antibody-drug conjugate (or […]
June 19, 2025

Mutant ROS1 inhibitor FDA approval

FOCUS on Drug Approvals. On June 11th, the FDA approved Taletrectinib (Ibtrozi, Nuvation Bio Inc) for adults with locally advanced or metastatic, ROS1-positive, non-small cell lung […]
April 21, 2025

Visit Focus Biomolecules at AACR

Focus Biomolecules will be exhibiting at the annual meeting of American Association for Cancer Research in Chicago, April 27 – 30. Stop by our booth (#1004) […]
March 6, 2025

PI3Kalpha inhibitor in the news

Focus on Drug Discovery. Lilly will acquire Scorpion Therapeutics’ PI3Kalpha inhibitor program which includes STX-478, a potentially best-in-class mutant-selective PI3Kα inhibitor currently being evaluated in a […]