Astex Bags Another Cancer Deal With MSD, This Time For ‘Undruggable’ p53 Target

Gets $35m Upfront

The UK-based biotech will license its Pyramid platform to MSD to develop anticancer compounds targeting p53, a key transcription factor dubbed the ‘guardian of the genome’ that has proven highly complex and challenging to drug.  

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TP53 Has Been Described As The Guardian Of The Genome • Source: Shutterstock

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