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    Express Targeting Undruggable Cancer Targets! A Bayer subsidiary supports the development of precision medicines with USD 930 million

    • Last Update: 2022-10-20
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    Vividion Therapeutics, a Bayer unit, and Tavros Therapeutics jointly announced a strategic collaboration agreement to jointly discover or target four oncology targets over the first 5 years
    .
    Under the agreement, Tavros could receive up to $930 million in funding
    .



    Tavros is a company
    that develops precision cancer treatments by targeting cancer genetic vulnerability.
    The company's modular, fast-to-scale, next-generation bi-directional synthetic lethality platform enables precise and direct identification of genetic interactions to enable the discovery of breakthrough targets for the development of "first-in-class" cancer drugs
    .
    Advanced functional genomics and in sit-out analysis can accelerate this target search process
    .


    Vividion is a company
    that uses innovative discovery technologies to unlock high-value, traditionally undruggable targets, and treat cancer and immune disorders through precision therapies.
    Vividion's platform can identify hundreds of previously unknown functional "pockets" that are present in validated protein targets in
    many diseases.
    At the same time, through the company's proprietary covalent chemistry library, highly selective complexes targeting these "pockets" can be identified as drug
    candidates.
    Vividion, through its proprietary chemical proteomics platform, is able to advance the development of different pipelines to target high-value, non-druggable targets in cancer and immunology
    .


    Related reading: Express | $2 billion to help target "undruggable" targets, Bayer acquires star companies


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    Under the agreement, Tavros will receive an upfront payment of $17.
    5 million from Vividion and approximately $430 million based on subsequent preclinical, clinical and commercial development milestones
    .
    Vividion's parent company, Bayer, also has the right to choose up to 5 additional targets on top of this partnership, which may bring up to about 480 million to
    Tavros.
    "The future of cancer treatment lies in the use of precision targeted therapies
    in an ideal clinical setting.
    This collaboration enables Tavros to expand our platform into new target areas, as a result of combining our precision cancer platform with Vividion's superior targeted non-druggable platform," said Dr.
    Eoin McDonnell, co-founder and CEO of Tavros.

    By combining the expertise of both companies, we will discover and drug the next generation of high-value targets while increasing the potency
    of potential candidate compounds.
    "



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    Resources:

    [1] Tavros Therapeutics and Vividion Therapeutics Announce Strategic Collaboration to Discover and Enhance Targeted Oncology Programs.
    Retrieved October 12, 2022 from style="margin-bottom: 0px;line-height: normal;">[2] Bayer's Vividion Bets up to $930M for Tavros Oncology Partnership.
    Retrieved October 12, 2022 from style="margin-bottom: 0px;line-height: normal;">

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