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Drug Discovery

Solu launches for bifunctional small-molecule drugs

by Michael McCoy
August 10, 2023 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 101, Issue 26

 

Solu Therapeutics has debuted with $31 million in seed financing to develop a small-molecule drug technology licensed from GSK. Called Cytotoxicity Targeting Chimera, or CyTaC, the technology results in bifunctional small molecules that bind to both an extracellular target and an antibody that can recruit the immune system to kill cancer and other pathogenic cells, the firm says. CyTaC is intended to “unlock” cell surface targets that antibodies can’t act on.

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