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Discovery of Well Defined Sulfated Glycopolymers as Specific Heparanase Inhibitors for Cancer Therapeutics

The remodeling of the extracellular matrix has been shown to be highly upregulated in cancer and inflammation and is critically linked to the processes of invasion and metastasis. The finding that heparanase is elevated in a wide variety of tumor types and is subsequently linked to the development of pathological processes has led to an explosion of...

Published: 12/2/2020 | Inventor(s): Hein Nguyen, Ravi Loka, Eric Sletten, Israel Vlodavsky

Keywords(s): Cancer, Cancer Therapies, Pharmaceuticals, Therapeutics

Category(s): Life Science, Oncology, Pharmaceuticals, Therapeutics

Identification of Galeterone's mechanism of action leading to novel treatment therapies for castrate resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)

Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC) or Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer (HRPC), is a type of prostate cancer that typically recurs after administering androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). The need for effective therapies for these difficult to treat cancers is gaining prominence in the prostate cancer market. The global CRPC market is poised...

Published: 4/16/2025 | Inventor(s): Qingping Dou, Huanjie Yang, Elisabeth Heath

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Category(s): Life Science, Oncology, Pharmaceuticals, Receptors/targets, Process/Procedure, Small molecule, Therapeutics

Microfluidic platforms for live-cell imaging and bio/pathomimetic tissue models

Background:Methodologies to image and quantify tissue models using high-content analysis (HCI) and functional analyses of 3D avatars are needed as such avatars better recapitulate the phenotype of pathobiological processes and better predict efficacy of, and resistance to, a wide variety of therapies. Furthermore, changes in morphometry, viability,...

Published: 2/14/2022 | Inventor(s): Bonnie Sloane, Kamiar Moin, Kyungmin Ji, Kingsley Osuala, Yong Xu, Hongen Tu

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Category(s): Specialty compounds, Research tools, Oncology, Microfluidics, Life Science, Instrumentation, Imaging, Diseases, Devices, Cell lines

Drugs that disrupt interactions between ELK1 and the androgen receptor to suppress growth of both early stage and castration resistant prostate cancer

Background:Prostate cancer is the second-most commonly diagnosed cancer among men and the fifth most common cause of male cancer death worldwide. Although tumors are often initially sensitive to medical or surgical therapies that decrease levels of testosterone, continued disease progression generally represents a transition to the lethal variant. In...

Published: 10/22/2019 | Inventor(s): Manohar Ratnam, Rayna Rosati, Mugdha Patki

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Category(s): Life Science, Therapeutics, Oncology, Drug Discovery, Pharmaceuticals

Using nanotechnology to target aggressive cancers with a novel small molecule inhibitor of the DNA damage tolerance pathway

Background: Nanotechnology is emerging as a promising tool to target cancer cells. Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are preferentially taken up by cancer cells when injected into the blood stream and their safety has been demonstrated in human clinical trials. WSU researchers have designed a unique nanoparticle conjugate that combines a GNP with a small molecule...

Published: 8/29/2018 | Inventor(s): Malathy Shekhar, Guangzhao Mao, Yanhua Zhang

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Category(s): Life Science, Oncology, Small molecule, Receptors/targets, Nano-based, Drug Delivery, Therapeutics, Diseases

SH80 Combinations

BackgroundSH35/SH80 evolved from an effort to improve upon the anti-tumor activity of XK469. XK469 is a compound, currently in Phase 1 clinical trials. The clinical trials include patients with bladder, breast, colorectal, esophageal, head and neck, kidney, liver, lung, mesothelioma, pancreas and sarcoma cancers. Moving a chlorine atom from one position...

Published: 3/2/2022 | Inventor(s): Lisa Polin

Keywords(s): Anti-cancer, Compound

Category(s): Life Science, Oncology, Therapeutics

Generation of gp78 null mice

Generation of gp78 null mice WSU Tech#: 15-1291 Technology: Generation of the first preclinical experimental model system for gp78-/- C57BL/6 mice, which spontaneously develops age-related nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), linking endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation (ERAD) to hepatosteatosis, cirrhosis,...

Published: 11/22/2021 | Inventor(s): Avraham Raz, Andrei Golovko

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Category(s): Animal models, Biology, Biomedical, Biotechnology, Drug Delivery, Drug Discovery, Drug Screening, Genomics/Genetics, Life Science, Oncology, Research tools

CARP-1/CCAR1 Functional Mimetics (CFMs): Novel small molecule suppressors of human breast cancer cell growth.

BackgroundCARP-1 (Cell cycle and apoptosis regulator protein) is a regulator of cell growth signaling. CARP-1 plays an important role in apoptosis (cell death) induction in human breast cancer (HBC) cells in the presence of the chemotherapy agent Adriamycin. The researchers have found that CARP-1 inhibits cell growth by binding with the anaphase...

Published: 8/16/2021 | Inventor(s): Arun Rishi

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Category(s): Medical, Drug Discovery, Life Science, Oncology, Pharmaceuticals

A Diagnostic Marker for Matrix Metalloprotease (MMP)-2 and -9 Activity in Cancer Tissue

This invention is a new and simple method for the identification of active versus latent matrix metalloprotease enzymes (MMPs) in tissue. Background & Unmet Need: MMPs are involved in tumor progression and therefore are targets for anti-cancer drug therapies. However, most drug therapies directed at inhibition of MMPs have failed because there...

Published: 11/22/2021 | Inventor(s): Avraham Raz, Rafael Fridman, Pratima Nangia-Makker

Keywords(s): Biomarker, Cancer, Diagnostics, Enzyme, Method

Category(s): Life Science, Oncology, Research tools, Antibodies, Therapeutics, Diseases