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Tagworks’ lead program, TGW101, targets TAG72, a non-internalizing clinically validated pan-carcinoma target, present in several solid tumors, which cannot be effectively addressed with current ADC technologies.
Enabling the selective on-target release and activation of a wide range of therapeutics, including small molecule prodrugs, antibody-drug conjugates, and caged proteins.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers are testing a diagnostic that uses bioorthogonal ‘click’ chemistry to combine a radioisotope and antibody in humans.
Tagworks discusses extending pretargeted radioimmuno-imaging and -therapy, initially tested in mice, toward human applications.
Tagworks developed an antibody tag with improved pharmacokinetics and stability, increasing tumor uptake of a radiolabeled pretargeting probe in tests.
Antibody tags with 10-fold increased reactivity and enhanced in vivo stability - Check the paper on 'Highly reactive trans-cyclooctene tags with improved stability for Diels-Alder chemistry in living systems' published in Bioconjugate Chemistry 2013, 24 ,7, 1210-1217 doi:10.1021/bc400153y
Tagworks modified the inverse-electron-demand-Diels-Alder reaction to achieve selective bioorthogonal release, enabling chemically triggered activation of tumor-bound ADCs.
Top-5 pharma company and Tagworks start collaboration on companion diagnostics.
Tagworks and the University of Missouri-Columbia secured an NIH IMAT grant for a project on in vivo metal-free cycloaddition chemistry for pretargeted cancer radiotherapy.
The latest edition of Medicines, a Dutch journal on drug development, features Tagworks Pharmaceuticals in the start-up sections. The article by Rik Nijland appeared in Medicines 1, February 2015 (in Dutch) 24_25_med1_startup
Marc Robillard, CEO of Tagworks Pharmaceuticals, presented the company’s R&D progress at the Gordon Research Conference on Organic Reactions and Processes in 2014.
Tagworks pioneers Click-to-Release technology, using in vivo click chemistry to expand the therapeutic window of cancer treatments.
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