PROTACs: great opportunities for academia and industry

X Sun, H Gao, Y Yang, M He, Y Wu, Y Song… - Signal transduction and …, 2019 - nature.com
Although many kinds of therapies are applied in the clinic, drug-resistance is a major and
unavoidable problem. Another disturbing statistic is the limited number of drug targets, which …

Recent advances in the developmental origin of neuroblastoma: an overview

M Ponzoni, T Bachetti, MV Corrias, C Brignole… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - Springer
Neuroblastoma (NB) is a pediatric tumor that originates from neural crest-derived cells
undergoing a defective differentiation due to genomic and epigenetic impairments …

Lorlatinib with or without chemotherapy in ALK-driven refractory/relapsed neuroblastoma: phase 1 trial results

KC Goldsmith, JR Park, K Kayser, J Malvar, YY Chi… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Neuroblastomas harbor ALK aberrations clinically resistant to crizotinib yet sensitive pre-
clinically to the third-generation ALK inhibitor lorlatinib. We conducted a first-in-child study …

Nanocomplex‐mediated in vivo programming to chimeric antigen receptor‐M1 macrophages for cancer therapy

M Kang, SH Lee, M Kwon, J Byun, D Kim… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Chimeric antigen receptor‐T (CAR‐T) cell immunotherapy has shown impressive clinical
outcomes for hematologic malignancies. However, its broader applications are challenged …

Heterogeneity of neuroblastoma cell identity defined by transcriptional circuitries

V Boeva, C Louis-Brennetot, A Peltier, S Durand… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Neuroblastoma is a tumor of the peripheral sympathetic nervous system, derived from
multipotent neural crest cells (NCCs). To define core regulatory circuitries (CRCs) controlling …

Harnessing connectivity in a large-scale small-molecule sensitivity dataset

B Seashore-Ludlow, MG Rees, JH Cheah, M Cokol… - Cancer discovery, 2015 - AACR
Identifying genetic alterations that prime a cancer cell to respond to a particular therapeutic
agent can facilitate the development of precision cancer medicines. Cancer cell-line (CCL) …

Overview and recent advances in the treatment of neuroblastoma

SB Whittle, V Smith, E Doherty, S Zhao… - Expert review of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Children with neuroblastoma have widely divergent outcomes, ranging from
cure in> 90% of patients with low risk disease to< 50% for those with high risk disease …

Molecular targeting therapies for neuroblastoma: Progress and challenges

A Zafar, W Wang, G Liu, X Wang, W Xian… - Medicinal research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There is an urgent need to identify novel therapies for childhood cancers. Neuroblastoma is
the most common pediatric solid tumor, and accounts for~ 15% of childhood cancer‐related …

Relapsed neuroblastomas show frequent RAS-MAPK pathway mutations

TF Eleveld, DA Oldridge, V Bernard, J Koster… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The majority of patients with neuroblastoma have tumors that initially respond to
chemotherapy, but a large proportion will experience therapy-resistant relapses. The …

CDK7 inhibition suppresses super-enhancer-linked oncogenic transcription in MYCN-driven cancer

E Chipumuro, E Marco, CL Christensen, N Kwiatkowski… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
The MYC oncoproteins are thought to stimulate tumor cell growth and proliferation through
amplification of gene transcription, a mechanism that has thwarted most efforts to inhibit …