{"id":1063543,"date":"2010-06-21T08:15:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T08:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/oncomed-has-wnt-in-its-sails\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T20:30:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T00:30:25","slug":"oncomed-has-wnt-in-its-sails-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/oncomed-has-wnt-in-its-sails-2.php","title":{"rendered":"OncoMed Has ‘Wnt’ in its Sails"},"content":{"rendered":"

OncoMed Has 'Wnt' in its Sails; Bayer Deal Adds $40M Up Front<\/a> by Jennifer Boggs, Bioworld<\/em>, June 18, 2010. Excerpts: <\/p>

[OncoMed's] latest accomplishment is another early stage deal, this time with Bayer Schering Pharma AG, to develop drugs targeting the Wnt signaling pathway. It's an agreement that brings $40 million up front, with the potential for more than $1 billion in future milestones.<\/p><\/blockquote>

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The Wnt pathway is believed to be a key target in halting cancer stem cell activity. But only a few other firms - Avalon Pharmaceuticals Inc. (now part of Clinical Data Inc.) and 2008 start-up Wintherix LLC, for example - have entered that space, largely because Wnt is not an easily druggable target.<\/p><\/blockquote>

News release from Bayer: Bayer Schering Pharma and OncoMed Pharmaceuticals Enter Strategic Alliance to Develop Anti-Cancer Stem Cell Therapeutics<\/a>, June 17, 2010. Excerpt: <\/p>

Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany, and OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced a global strategic alliance to discover, develop and commercialize novel anti-cancer stem cell therapeutics targeting the Wnt signaling pathway. Cancer stem cells are a subset of tumor cells believed to play a significant role in the establishment, metastasis and recurrence of cancer and agents targeting the Wnt pathway have the potential to be developed as pan-tumor drugs.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Comment<\/span>: The Bayer-OncoMed strategic alliance has received attention via the social media. See, for example, the results of this FriendFeed search<\/a>.<\/p>

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