Teva, CRT Build On Tie That Produced aPKC Protein Inhibitor Candidate

By jointly finding a first-in-class atypical Protein Kinase C inhibitor preclinical candidate, Israel’s Teva and Britain’s Cancer Research Technology have successfully capped a four-year collaboration and are now branching out into the area of DNA damage response.

Having identified a novel atypical Protein Kinase C (aPKC) inhibitor preclinical candidate that Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. will move into the clinic, the Israeli drug maker and Cancer Research Technology Ltd. are starting a new project to find and develop drugs that modulate DNA damage and repair response (DDR) processes in cancer cells.

Their collaboration started in March 2010 when Cancer Research Technology inked a deal with Cephalon Inc. on developing small-molecule inhibitors targeting specific members of the Protein Kinase C superfamily of cell-signaling proteins associated with development of cancer

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