Day: September 2, 2024

New publication in Nature Communications on the development of VAR2 Pharma’s first-in-class antibodies – Vartumabs – and their pre-clinical validation as a platform for cancer therapeutics

The development of cancer is accompanied by a change in the composition of a sugar molecule called chondroitin sulfate. This sugar molecule becomes unusually long and heavily sulfated. For years, VAR2 has pursued the development of cancer therapeutics targeting this secondary modification called oncofetal chondroitin sulfate. But until recently, the known difficulties in generating antibodies […]