Aprea Therapeutics Announces Agreement with MD Anderson Cancer Center to Explore APR-1051 as a Potential Treatment for HNSCC
“This agreement with MD Anderson Cancer Center underscores our commitment to leveraging strong academic partnerships to advance our pipeline of DDR inhibitors” said Oren Gilad, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Aprea. “HNSCC represents a major global health burden, and prior work conducted at MD Anderson, and published by Professors Myers, Osman and their colleagues, suggests that WEE1 kinase may present a promising therapeutic target. We look forward to the insights that will emerge from this important research.”
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