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IFM launches STING inhibitor company

by Ryan Cross
February 16, 2019 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 7

 

Boston-based IFM Therapeutics has launched a new subsidiary called IFM Due to develop small-molecule drugs for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. IFM previously developed activators of a protein called STING—stimulator of interferon genes—which it sold to Bristol-Myers Squibb as part of a 2017 deal worth $300 million. Activating STING is a promising strategy for boosting cancer immunotherapies. Now IFM Due plans to develop inhibitors of STING, which is overactive in some autoimmune diseases.

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