Licensing opportunity
Scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Switzerland have proposed treating cancer by down-regulating the targets frizzled-4 and/or frizzled-1, following their discovery that frizzled-1 and frizzled-4 are over-expressed in cancer.
The frizzled family of receptors are involved in the Wnt signalling pathway, a complex network of proteins that is involved in embryogenesis and cancer.
The researchers say that frizzled-1 and frizzled-4 could also be deployed as biomarkers, both for diagnosis and for stratification of patients in clinical trials.
Both exclusive and non-exclusive license licenses are available.
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