Cullinan Oncology Inc. and Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced an agreement through which Taiho will acquire Cullinan Pearl Corp. and co-develop and co-commercialize Cullinan Oncology’s lead program, CLN-081/TAS6417, an orally available, differentiated, irreversible EGFR inhibitor that selectively targets cells expressing EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations, while sparing cells expressing wild-type EGFR in non-small cell lung cancer.
As biomedical research at NIH faces an existential threat from the Trump administration, an entrepreneur is winning over allies for what he describes as a “simple idea” that could introduce a massive new infusion of money for innovation in medicine.
