Abstract:
The present invention provides, among other things, dimeric multispecific binding agents (e.g., fusion proteins comprising antibody components) that have improved properties over multispecific binding agents without the capability of dimerization. In certain embodiments, provided agents are comprised of individual polypeptides, each of which includes at least one, and more commonly at least two or more binding moieties that specifically interact with a particular target. In many embodiments, such polypeptides include a dimerization component. In many embodiments, the dimerization component is an element of human hepafocyte nuclear factor-1 alpha.
Abstract:
Described herein are chimeric Newcastle disease viruses engineered to express an agonist of a co-stimulatory signal of an immune cell and compositions comprising such viruses. Also described herein are chimeric Newcastle disease viruses engineered to express an antagonist of an inhibitory signal of an immune cell and compositions comprising such viruses. The chimeric Newcastle disease viruses and compositions are useful in the treatment of cancer. In addition, described herein are methods for treating cancer comprising administering Newcastle disease viruses in combination with an agonist of a co-stimulatory signal of an immune and/or an antagonist of an inhibitory signal of an immune cell.
Abstract:
The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating cancer with peptide nucleic acid agents. In some embodiments, the present invention provides methods and compositions relating to peptide nucleic acid agents that target oncogenes. For example, the present invention provides compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions, comprising agents specific for BRAF V600E inhibition, or fragments or characteristic portions thereof. The present invention further provides various therapeutic and/or diagnostic methods of using BRAF V600E specific peptide nucleic acid agents and/or compositions.
Abstract:
The present invention encompasses the recognition that reproducible and detectable changes in the level and or activity of Glucocorticoid Receptor (GR) are associated with incidence and/or risk of Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC) and/or doubly resistant prostate cancer, specifically in individuals having prostate cancer and on antiandrogen therapy, and provides for the use of GR inhibitors to treat and/or reduce risk of CRPC and/or doubly resistant prostate cancer. In some embodiments, GR inhibitors also have Androgen Receptor (AR) inhibitory activity or are administered in conjunction with AR inhibitors. The present invention also provides technologies for identification and/or characterization of agents to treat and/or reduce risk of CRPC and/or doubly resistant prostate cancer; in some embodiments such agents alter level and/or activity of a GR. In some embodiments, provided agents show effects on a GR's activity of regulating transcription of one or more target genes. The present invention also provides systems for using such agents, for example to treat and/or reduce risk of CRPC and/or doubly resistant prostate cancer.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for determining the likelihood that a subject suffering from a cancer will benefit from treatment with a MEK inhibitor. It also relates to methods of treatment based on such determination. The invention is based, at least in part, on the discoveries that DDX43 mRNA and protein are expressed at high levels in biopsies from "non-responder" UM patients and that selumetinib-resistant cell lines showed high DDX43 expression which correlated with increased expression and activity of RAS. It was found that KRAS and HRAS but not NRAS, mediated expression of pERK and pAKT, bypassing oncogenic GNAQ. The invention is further based on the discovery that selumetinib-resistant cells became sensitive to AKT inhibition, suggesting alternative strategies for the treatment of cancer patients with acquired resistance to MEK inhibitors.
Abstract:
This disclosure concerns a method for selecting an inhibitor of a cancer-implicated pathway or of a component thereof for coadministration with an inhibitor of HSP90 the method comprising: (a) contacting a sample containing cancer cells from a subject with an inhibitor of HSP90 under conditions such that one or more cancer pathway components present in the sample bind to the HSP90 inhibitor; (b) detecting pathway components bound to the HSP90 inhibitor; (c) analyzing the pathway components detected in step (b) so as to identify a pathway which includes the components detected in step (b) and additional components of such pathway; and (d) selecting an inhibitor of the pathway or of a pathway component identified in step (c). The disclosure further concerns a method of treating a cancer patient by co administering an inhibitor of HSP90 and an inhibitor of a cancer-implicated pathway or component thereof.
Abstract:
The present invention provides compounds useful as modulators, agonists or antagonists of androgen receptor (AR), compositions thereof, and methods of making and using the same.
Abstract:
Methods and kits for assessing risk of metastasis in a cancer patient identified as having breast cancer, colon cancer or glioma use analysis of a classifier for CpG island methylator phenotype.
Abstract:
The present invention provides homogenously glycosylated erythropoietin and the methods of preparing the same. In some embodiments, the present invention provides a composition of homogeneously glycosylated erythropoietin. In some embodiments, the present invention provides a composition of homogeneous, fully glycosylated erythropoietin. In some embodiments, the present invention provides methods for preparing a composition of homogenously glycosylated erythropoietin. In some embodiments, the present invention provides methods for preparing a composition of homogeneous, fully glycosylated erythropoietin. In some embodiments, the present invention provides methods for preparing a composition of homogeneous, fully glycosylated full-length erythropoietin. In some embodiments, the present invention provides methods for preparing a composition of, homogeneous, fully glycosylated full-length erythropoietin through chemical synthesis.