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Stipple Bio launches with $100M to find more precise targets on cancer proteins

It’s no secret that cancer drug development is full of bandwagons. Companies see a promising target, and crowd around it (see PD-1xVEGF or HER2 for recent examples).

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It’s no secret that cancer drug development is full of bandwagons. Companies see a promising target, and crowd around it (see PD-1xVEGF or HER2 for recent examples).

But two cancer biologists — Aaron Ring at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Aashish Manglik at UCSF — believed they could go one layer deeper than others. Even within a single protein target, there could be different ways for a drug to attach. They just needed a systematic way to seek out those small bits on a protein that could be even more specific cancer drug targets.

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