ERC Advanced Grant · 2019
Targeting cancer vulnerabilities in acute leukemia
Background and rationale: Adult acute leukemias pose a great challenge to cancer therapy, with only few advances made in 50 years. As these malignancies are commonly associated with multiple epigenetic aberrations, epigenetic factors represent attractive leukemia drug targets. Nevertheless, most epigenetic-targeting drugs have displayed limited clinical benefit and key leukemia drivers like MYC, ERG and MYB remained mostly undruggable. We have developed a new class of small molecule kinase inhibitors, termed “oncodestroyers” (ODs), single molecules combining supreme p53 activation with selective disruption of multiple leukemia-specific super-enhancers (SEs) that drive oncogenes and…
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