VOR-001 is an oral medicine from Vortex Therapeutics designed to block the cancer-driving protein MYC directly; it has been tested in animals so far.
VOR-001 is the lead programme of Vortex Therapeutics, described as an orally bioavailable small-molecule MYC inhibitor selected to advance to an investigational new drug application. The company reports nanomolar binding to MYC, tumour regression in a mouse hepatocellular carcinoma model and a predicted half-life of about 80 hours in preclinical models. No clinical trial is registered.
Described by the company as a direct MYC inhibitor that binds a pocket formed when MYC is acetylated, selectively regulating MYC target genes. Connects to MYC.
1.VOR-001 slips into a pocket on MYC.
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