Ryvu Therapeutics to present ONCO Prime platform

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Transmitted by PR Newswire for Journalists on September 23, 2024 10:31 AM EDT

Ryvu Therapeutics to present ONCO Prime platform at the 6th Annual RAS-Targeted Drug Development Summit


ONCO Prime is a cutting-edge drug discovery platform identifying novel synthetic lethal targets using patient-derived primary cell cultures. Initial data have identified potentially novel drug targets in KRAS-mutant colorectal cancer (CRC), and the platform has broad applicability across multiple tumor types.
Krzysztof Brzózka, Ryvu’s Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President, will present the ONCO Prime platform during the 6th Annual RAS-Targeted Drug Development Summit on September 25 at 4:45 PM (ET, Boston).
KRAKOW, Poland, Sept. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Ryvu Therapeutics (WSE: RVU), a clinical-stage drug discovery and development company focusing on novel small molecule therapies that address emerging targets in oncology, will present its ONCO Prime drug discovery platform at the 6th Annual RAS-Targeted Drug Development Summit, a leading global end-to-end RAS therapies forum, which will take place on September 24-26 in Boston, MA.

ONCO Prime is a cutting-edge drug discovery platform identifying novel synthetic lethal targets using patient-derived primary cell cultures. The platform comprises of new cancer models with the optimal ratio of translational potential and high-throughput feasibility. By using patient-derived cells, the ONCO Prime platform uses patients‘ medical history combined with histopathological, genomic, and transcriptomic data to enable the correlation of clinical and molecular data. Initial platform screens have identified potentially novel drug targets in KRAS-mutant colorectal cancer (CRC). Additionally, the platform has broad applicability across multiple tumor types, and additional screens in other major tumor areas are ongoing.