X-Chem collaborative effort

Timeframe: 2024 – 2025 Study overview: Since the discovery in 2014 of the fusion gene (DNAJB1-PRKACA) that drives fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC), a drug that would selectively inhibit or destroy the chimeric protein (DNAJ-PKAc) encoded by that gene has been considered a “holy grail” for FLC therapy. Such a drug must effectively target DNAJ-PKAc, while only …

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Targeting CDK7 in Fibrolamellar Carcinoma (FLC)

Timeframe: 2024 – 2026 Goal: Determine if targeting CDK7 could be a useful treatment approach for FLC. Principal Investigator: Sean Ronnekleiv-Kelly, MD Study overview: Unregulated proliferation of cells is a hallmark of cancer. In other words, cancer cells continue to divide and increase in number when normal cells would stop dividing. A family of 20 …

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