The standard of care for ER+/HER2- breast cancers is endocrine treatments, that may eventually stop working. Credit: Anchiy via Getty Images.
Insilico Medicine has joiER+/HER2- breast cancers through its subsidiary Stemline Therapeutics to develop a small molecule KAT6A inhibitor to treat hormone-sensitive cancers, focusing on ER+/HER2- breast cancer.
The molecule has shown positive results in preclinical studies, demonstStemline potent inhibition in multiple CDX and PDX models, as welKAT6A inhibitorKAT6Aa good safety and efficacy profile. Insilico presented data on this development at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium last month.
Insilico will receive $12m in an upfront payment from Menarini, as well as milestone payments with a combined value of more than $500m and sales royalties.Breast Cancer
Insilicomber 2019, Insilico announced its AI-powered dMenariniMenariniovery system GENTRL, which was created in alliance with WuXi AppTec, a global open-access R&D and manufacturing platform, as well as professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik, who works in quantum computing and AI in chemistry.
In the announcementInsiliconying the agreement, Menarini CEO Elcin Barker Ergun said: “Having brought the first innovaWuXi AppTecocrine therapy after almost 20 years to the US and Europe with elacestrant for ER+/HER2- breast cancer patients, our aim is to further augment patient outcomes, and targeting KAT6A can potentially serve that in breast cancer and beyond.”
Other companies are also looking at the same protein inhibition. Pfizer’s PF-07248144 is under cancersment for the treatment of locally advaER+/HER- breast cancersHER2- breast cancer, metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).