RE: 10 warheads to be revealed in the pipeline13 Oct 2024 11:51
Re: "Enhertu (Trastuzumab Deruxtecan), Exatecan (Deruxtecan being a derivative), Trodelvy (Sacituzumab Govitecan) – plus several other products delivering SN-38, or even Keytruda (Pembolizumab)?"
Anything ending -zumab is an antibody, so the topoisomerase I inhibitor warheads listed here are just the deruxtecan, exatecan and govitecan (all are lowercase generic, not capitalised Trade names) and govitecan is also known as SN-38 (its research code, like AVA6000, AVA3996, AVA6103, etc).
Computational chemistry was used to design the pipeline. Starting with the 3D crystal structure of FAP and its receptor, as mentioned in the video, a computer modelling program would have been used to model the fitting of various designs of pipeline candidates into the receptor space. SAR was mentioned in the video. That stands for 'structure activity relationship' and is applied as a feedback system in that designed structures that show some activity in vitro and then in vivo are fed back into the computational chemistry modelling in an iterative way (tweaking) to optimise the efficacy.