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Drug Discovery

Frontier and AbbVie sign E3 degrader pact

by Michael McCoy
December 5, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 47

 

AbbVie will pay Frontier Medicines $55 million up front as part of a multiyear pact in which the firms will use Frontier’s chemoproteomics technology to identify small molecules that act on E3 ligases, a family of proteins that tag other proteins for degradation. The approach is considered a way to target “undruggable” proteins. Frontier, one of C&EN’s 10 Start-Ups to Watch in 2019, launched in 2018 with technology developed by University of California, Berkeley, chemical biologist Daniel Nomura. This is its first major collaboration.

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