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Shattuck Shifts Gears After Lackluster CD47-Targeting Bispecific Results

 
• By Alaric DeArment

The biotech is cutting jobs and discontinuing development of its anti-CD47 bispecific for blood cancers and moving its focus to SL-325, which targets the TL1A-DR3 axis in autoimmune diseases.

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Shattuck Labs, Inc. is moving to focus its clinical efforts on autoimmune diseases with SL-325 after deciding to discontinue its hematology-oncology candidate, SL-172154, due to efficacy that did not reach a high enough bar for overall survival (OS) improvement. The decision marks a strategic shift for the company, which includes a 40% reduction in its workforce, but also yet another blow for the once-promising field of CD47-directed cancer immunotherapies.

The biotech said 1 October that it would discontinue development of SL-172154, a CD47xCD40L-directed bispecific antibody, in TP53-mutated acute myeloid...

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