HWK-007 / Whitehawk Therapeutics, Hangzhou DAC Biotech, WuXi AppTec - LARVOL DELTA

Whitehawk Therapeutics Advances to Clinical Stage with IND Clearance for HWK-007 and Announces IND Submission for HWK-016 (PRNewswire) - "Whitehawk's Phase 1 trial for HWK-007 is now actively recruiting and will initially evaluate activity in lung and ovarian cancers....The company also announced the submission of an IND for HWK-016, its MUC16-targeted ADC, to the FDA in December 2025. A Phase 1 trial is anticipated to start recruiting this quarter and is expected to initially evaluate activity in two high MUC16-expressing gynecologic cancers, ovarian and endometrial....Whitehawk expects to report initial clinical data from these trials in early 2027."

IND • New P1 trial • P1 data • Endometrial Cancer • Non Small Cell Lung Cancer • Ovarian Cancer

Whitehawk Therapeutics Presents Real-World Analysis Confirming PTK7 as a Broadly Expressed, Clinically Relevant Target Across Solid Tumors at AACR-NCI-EORTC (PRNewswire) - "PTK7 is expressed in ~70% of solid tumors. PTK7 is the third most highly expressed tumor marker among clinically validated and emerging ADC targets, after HER2 and HER3....Findings support potential of PTK7 as a pan-tumor target, reinforcing Whitehawk's development of PTK7-directed ADC HWK-007....The Company plans to submit an Investigational New Drug application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for HWK-007 by year-end, with initial clinical evaluation planned in NSCLC, ovarian and endometrial cancers."

IND • Real-world • Endometrial Cancer • Non Small Cell Lung Cancer • Ovarian Cancer

Aadi Bioscience Transforms with In-Licensing of Novel ADC Portfolio… (PRNewswire) - "Aadi Bioscience...announced it has entered into an exclusive license agreement for development and global commercialization of a three-asset portfolio of preclinical, next-wave antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), in collaboration with WuXi Biologics...and HANGZHOU DAC....Per the terms of the license agreement, Aadi is granted exclusive rights to certain patents and know-how pertaining to three preclinical ADC programs leveraging HANGZHOU DAC's CPT113 linker payload technology targeting each of Protein Tyrosine Kinase 7 (PTK7), Mucin-16 (MUC16) and Seizure Related 6 Homolog (SEZ6). Aadi will pay aggregate upfront payments of $44 million for in-licensing such ADC programs. Additionally, Aadi is obligated to pay cumulative development milestone payments of up to $265 million, cumulative commercial milestone payments of up to $540 million and single-digit royalties of sales."

Licensing / partnership • Solid Tumor