{"title":"Induced proximity pushes beyond protein degraders, as first RIPTAC moves into the clinic","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/d41573-025-00037-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41573-025-00037-7","url":null,"abstract":"Halda Therapeutics has started a clinical trial of its first-in-modality RIPTAC drug HLD-0915 in prostate cancer, to see if bifunctional drugs can provide tissue-specific activity.","PeriodicalId":18847,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Drug Discovery","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143518535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical development success rates for durable cell and gene therapies","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/d41573-025-00036-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41573-025-00036-8","url":null,"abstract":"Discover the world’s best science and medicine | Nature.com","PeriodicalId":18847,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Drug Discovery","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143506887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Genetics opens new route to degrader discovery","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/d41573-025-00040-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41573-025-00040-y","url":null,"abstract":"Discover the world’s best science and medicine | Nature.com","PeriodicalId":18847,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Drug Discovery","volume":"129 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143495373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oral STING agonist inhibits tumour growth","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/d41573-025-00033-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41573-025-00033-x","url":null,"abstract":"Discover the world’s best science and medicine | Nature.com","PeriodicalId":18847,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Drug Discovery","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143477672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reversing lysosomal dysfunction to treat PAH","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/d41573-025-00035-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41573-025-00035-9","url":null,"abstract":"Discover the world’s best science and medicine | Nature.com","PeriodicalId":18847,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Drug Discovery","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143477676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adrenomedullin triggers insulin resistance","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/d41573-025-00032-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41573-025-00032-y","url":null,"abstract":"Discover the world’s best science and medicine | Nature.com","PeriodicalId":18847,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Drug Discovery","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143477670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A platform for personalized ASO therapeutics","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/d41573-025-00034-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41573-025-00034-w","url":null,"abstract":"Discover the world’s best science and medicine | Nature.com","PeriodicalId":18847,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Drug Discovery","volume":"209 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143477671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MYC in cancer: from undruggable target to clinical trials","authors":"Jonathan R. Whitfield, Laura Soucek","doi":"10.1038/s41573-025-01143-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41573-025-01143-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>MYC</i> is among the most infamous oncogenes in cancer. A notable feature that distinguishes it from other common oncogenes is that its deregulation is not usually due to direct mutation, but instead to its relentless activation by other oncogenic lesions. These signalling pathways funnel through MYC to execute the transcriptional programmes that eventually lead to the uncontrolled proliferation of cancer cells. Indeed, deregulated MYC activity may be linked to most — if not all — human cancers. Despite this unquestionable role of MYC in tumour development and maintenance, no MYC inhibitor has yet been approved for clinical use. The main reason is that MYC has long fallen into the category of ‘undruggable’ or ‘difficult-to-drug’ targets, mainly because of its intrinsically disordered structure, which is not amenable to traditional drug development strategies. However, in recent years, attempts to develop MYC inhibitors have multiplied, and the first clinical trials have been testing their efficacy in patients. We are finally reaching the point at which its inhibition seems clinically viable. This Review provides an overview of the various strategies to inhibit MYC, focusing on the most recently described inhibitors and those that have reached clinical trials.</p>","PeriodicalId":18847,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Drug Discovery","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143443717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Androgen membrane receptor modulates muscle strength","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/d41573-025-00031-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41573-025-00031-z","url":null,"abstract":"Discover the world’s best science and medicine | Nature.com","PeriodicalId":18847,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Drug Discovery","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143443733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liese Barbier, Pierpaolo Moscariello, Hubert G Leufkens, Ralf Herold, Anna Maria Gerdina Pasmooij
{"title":"A new European platform for advancing regulatory science research","authors":"Liese Barbier, Pierpaolo Moscariello, Hubert G Leufkens, Ralf Herold, Anna Maria Gerdina Pasmooij","doi":"10.1038/d41573-025-00024-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41573-025-00024-y","url":null,"abstract":"Launching in 2025, the European Platform for Regulatory Science Research will bring together academia, regulators and other stakeholders to accelerate collaborative regulatory science research solutions.","PeriodicalId":18847,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Drug Discovery","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143375302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}