Just before the new year, the biotech company Ascendis Pharma applied to the US Food and Drug Administration for permission to start running trials with a drug candidate for the treatment of cancer, according a company announcement.
On previous occasions, the firm presented three possible cancer candidates, and the first to be put through a clinical trial program is Transcon TLR7/8 Agonist, which is designed to enhance the immune system by imitating the proteins TLR7 and TLR8.
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