Elizabeth McKenna: Two Cancer Discovery papers that were published simultaneously with ESMO24

Elizabeth McKenna shared a post on LinkedIn, about recent papers published in AACR Journals:

”I’m very pleased to share two Cancer Discovery papers that were published simultaneously with ESMO24 presentations! These papers provide the preclinical characterization and early clinical proof-of-concept for two drugs now in Phase I trials.

AMG 193, a Clinical Stage MTA-Cooperative PRMT5 Inhibitor, Drives Antitumor Activity Preclinically and in Patients With MTAP-Deleted Cancers.

Authors: Brian Belmontes, Katherine K. Slemmons, Chun Su, Siyuan Liu, Antonia N. Policheni, Jodi Moriguchi, Hong Tan, Fang Xie, Daniel Andrew Aiello, Yajing Yang, Raul Lazaro, Famke Aeffner, Matthew G. Rees, Melissa M. Ronan, Jennifer A. Roth, Mikkel Vestergaard, Sanne Cowland, Jan Andersson, Ian Sarvary, Qing Chen, Pooja Sharma, Patricia Lopez, Nuria Tamayo, Liping H. Pettus, Sudipa Ghimire-Rijal, Susmith Mukund, Jennifer R. Allen, Jason DeVoss, Angela Coxon, Jordi Rodon, Francois Ghiringhelli, Nicolas Penel, Hans Prenen, Sanne Glad, Chen-Hua Chuang, Kiana Keyvanjah, Danielle M. Townsley, John R. Butler, Matthew P. Bourbeau, Sean Caenepeel, Paul E. Hughes.

NVL-655 Is a Selective and Brain-Penetrant Inhibitor of Diverse ALK-Mutant Oncoproteins, Including Lorlatinib-Resistant Compound Mutations.

Authors: Jessica J. Lin, Joshua C. Horan, Anupong Tangpeerachaikul, Aurélie Swalduz, Augusto Valdivia, Melissa L. Johnson, Benjamin Besse, D. Ross Camidge, Toshio Fujino, Satoshi Yoda, Linh Nguyen-Phuong, Hayato Mizuta, Ludovic Bigot, Catline Nobre, Jii Bum Lee, Mi Ra Yu, Scot Mente, Yuting Sun, Nancy E. Kohl, James R. Porter, Matthew D. Shair, Viola W. Zhu, Enriqueta Felip, Byoung Chul Cho, Luc Friboulet, Aaron N. Hata, Henry E. Pelish, Alexander Drilon.”

Source: Elizabeth McKenna/LinkedIn

Elizabeth McKenna is the Executive Director of Cancer Discovery at the American Association for Cancer Research. Elizabeth earned her PhD from Harvard University and trained with Dr. Charles Roberts at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Her research was among the first to show that pediatric tumors characterized by mutations in chromatin remodelers are genomically stable and instead driven by epigenetic deregulation of key target genes. She joined Cancer Discovery shortly after its launch as its founding Science Writer and became an editor in 2014, rising through the editorial ranks to become the journal’s Executive Editor in 2019. She is a member of the 40 Under 40 in Cancer Class of 2021.