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 …

JAK inhibition as a therapeutic strategy for immune and inflammatory diseases

DM Schwartz, Y Kanno, A Villarino, M Ward… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2017 - nature.com
The discovery of cytokines as key drivers of immune-mediated diseases has spurred efforts
to target their associated signalling pathways. Janus kinases (JAKs) are essential signalling …

Sorafenib Maintenance After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Acute Myeloid Leukemia With FLT3–Internal Tandem Duplication Mutation …

A Burchert, G Bug, LV Fritz, J Finke… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Despite undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT),
patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with internal tandem duplication mutation in the …

Midostaurin plus Chemotherapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia with a FLT3 Mutation

RM Stone, SJ Mandrekar, BL Sanford… - … England Journal of …, 2017 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and a FLT3 mutation have poor
outcomes. We conducted a phase 3 trial to determine whether the addition of midostaurin …

FLT3 inhibitors in acute myeloid leukemia: ten frequently asked questions

AI Antar, ZK Otrock, E Jabbour, M Mohty, A Bazarbachi - Leukemia, 2020 - nature.com
The FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) gene is mutated in approximately one third of patients
with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), either by internal tandem duplications (FLT3-ITD), or by …

Developments of CRBN-based PROTACs as potential therapeutic agents

C Wang, Y Zhang, Y Wu, D Xing - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Protease-targeted chimeras (PROTACs) are a new technology that is receiving much
attention in the treatment of diseases. The mechanism is to inhibit protein function by …

Acute myeloid leukaemia in adults

F Ferrara, CA Schiffer - The Lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
The outlook for patients with acute myeloid leukaemia has improved in the past 30 years.
Unlike other cancers, much of this progress is attributable to refinement of supportive …

Treatment of relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia

P Bose, P Vachhani, JE Cortes - Current treatment options in oncology, 2017 - Springer
Opinion statement Approximately 40–45% of younger and 10–20% of older adults with
acute myeloid leukemia (AML) will be cured with current standard chemotherapy. The …

Phase 2 study of azacytidine plus sorafenib in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and FLT-3 internal tandem duplication mutation

F Ravandi, ML Alattar, MR Grunwald… - Blood, The Journal …, 2013 - ashpublications.org
Abstract Patients received 5-azacytidine (AZA) 75 mg/m2 intravenously daily for 7 days and
sorafenib 400 mg orally twice daily continuously; cycles were repeated at∼ 1-month …

Recent drug approvals for acute myeloid leukemia

C Lai, K Doucette, K Norsworthy - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2019 - Springer
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common form of acute leukemia in adults, with an
incidence that increases with age, and a generally poor prognosis. The disease is clinically …