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Tech Transfer Roundup: Erasca Calls On MD Anderson To Advance Its RAS/MAPK Pipeline

 
• By Joseph Haas, Lisa Takagi, and Dexter Jie Yan

Plus agreements involving Hansoh/GHDDI, BriaCell/UMBC, Novartis/UC Berkeley, NeoPhore/Memorial Sloan Kettering, GEn1E/UM-Baltimore, ValoTx/University of Helsinki and Sosei/Cancer Research UK.

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Precision oncology-focused Erasca, Inc. inked a research and development collaboration on 23 August with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to evaluate multiple agents from Erasca’s pipeline targeting the RAS/MAPK pathway as either single-agent or combination therapies. Under the five-year agreement, the partners will conduct collaborative preclinical and clinical studies in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), gastrointestinal malignancies and additional mutually agreed-upon indications.

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