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France’s PEP-Therapy Cell-Penetrating Peptides To Teach Cancer Cells How ‘To Die Again’

Novel Product First In A New Drug Class

 
• By Sten Stovall

Emerging Company Profile: Armed with fresh funds, French spin-out PEP-Therapy will begin a clinical proof of concept study assessing its lead therapeutic peptide as a potential treatment for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer and platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.

Emerging Company Profile: PEP-Therapy
• Source: Informa

Academic spin-out PEP-Therapy S.A.S. can now start a first-in-human clinical trial evaluating its lead asset PEP-010 as a potential tumor killer following a series A financing that raised €5.4m ($6.4m) in two successful stages, the biotech’s CEO told Scrip.

PEP-010 is the first of a new class of therapeutic peptides based on PEP-Therapy’s proprietary Cell Penetrating & Interfering Peptide technology which generates molecules that can penetrate cells and

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