Illustrative image of cancer cells (Design Cells; iStock by Getty Images)
KAHR, a maker of cancer immunotherapies, said it has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia to develop and commercialize a number of new cancer drug candidates.
Under the agreement, the university is granting KAHR the license to develop and commercialize new immuno-oncology drug candidates based on fusion proteins. These drugs are complex structures made by fusing the natural sequence of different proteins to make them bind two or three targets on cancer and immune cells. The new drug candidates entering development are called DSP502 (TIGITxPD1) and DSP216 (LILRB2xSIRPa).