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An international team of scientists today announced the results of a systematic effort to map the genetic changes underlying lung cancer, the world’s leading cause of cancer deaths.
Targeted protein degradation uses different types of "degrading" drugs (degraders) to force proximity between a target protein (for example, a mutated protein that contributes to the development of a disease) and the cellular machinery that directs protein degradation.
This week, the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the BBVA Foundation are hosting the 39th Barcelona BioMed Conference—an event in which leading figures can exchange ideas and discuss the latest advances in the field of proximity induction-based pharmacology. The “Proximity-inducing pharmacology: Targeted protein degradation and beyond” conference, co-organised by Dr. Cristina Mayor-Ruiz, from IRB Barcelona, and Dr. Georg E. Winter, from the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine in Vienna (Austria), is being held in Barcelona between 22 and 24 May. Dr. May...