Perspectives

Market research is the foundation of success for any business venture. It’s the process of systematically collecting and analysing an abundance of information regarding existing and potential customers, as well as examining competitors and the wider industry. 

Really insightful talk delivered by Dr. Mythill Koneru (Chief Medical Officer – Marker Therapeutics) @ the CAR-TCR Summit Europe 2020 highlighting the advantages of Marker Therapeutics Multi-Tumour-Associated Antigen-Specific (MultiTAA) T Cells in multiple oncology-focused indications.

In pondering the ongoing discoveries and nascent technologies that could advance the treatment of cancer in the coming decade...

Continuing on this theme that Joel has raised in his recent post (“CD19 and BCMA – ‘What if This is as Good as it Gets?’”), I would like to add a few additional points. One, Joel notes the limited universe of validated targets. The issue of target discovery remains critical for Oncology. And while many companies are leveraging diverse platforms to surface completely new targets (such as Immatics and Atreca), other biotechs are exploiting unique twists and keen understanding of the biology of cancer cells to identify novel targets, as defined by novel epitopes for antibodies and related, that are unique to cancer cells, but which are occurring on known, validated targets, meaning know cell surface proteins (like GO Therapeutics, targeting novel cancer-specific glycosylation).