The present disclosure provides methods and kits for determining whether a cancer in a subject is susceptible to a treatment with a combination therapy comprising a bispecific anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)/hepatocyte growth factor receptor (c-Met) antibody and an EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI). The present disclosure also provides methods for treating a cancer in a subject based on the susceptibility of the cancer to the treatment with a combination therapy comprising a bispecific EGFR/c-Met antibody and an EGFR TKI.

The invention discloses oncogenic fusion proteins. The invention provides methods for treating gene-fusion based cancers.

Described are antibodies that specifically bind to the Axl protein and inhibit the interaction between Axl and the Axl-ligand, Gas6. Also disclosed are methods for the production and use of the anti-Axl antibodies.

Described herein are methods of treating COVID19 from a coronavirus infection, methods of treating a subject having a coronavirus infection, methods of improving a survival rate of a subject having a coronavirus infection, methods of determining prognosis of a subject having a coronavirus infection, methods of preventing or treating organ-dysfunction or multi-organ dysfunction or failure associated with a coronavirus infection, methods of combinational therapy for a subject having a coronavirus infection, methods of reducing microthrombi formation or low flow organ-ischemia associated with a coronavirus infection by administering a DEspR inhibitor.

The present invention relates to a metabolic biomarker set for use in assessing breast cancer in a mammalian subject. In particular, the invention relates to a metabolic biomarker set for screening and/or diagnosing breast cancer, the metabolic biomarker set including at least (a) one amino acid selected from glutamine, glutamate and serine, and one lipid, or (b) glutamine and glutamate. Further, the invention relates to a metabolic biomarker set for prediction of therapeutic response to breast cancer neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Moreover, the present invention relates to a method for assessing breast cancer, which includes obtaining a biological sample, preferably blood, from a mammalian subject and measuring in the biological sample the amount and/or ratios of metabolites. By employing the specific biomarkers and the method according to the present invention it becomes possible to more properly and reliably assess breast cancer.

The present invention provides a method for providing information for diagnosis of metastasis of radiotherapy-treated lung cancer, the method comprising the steps of: (a) measuring an expression level of receptor-interacting protein kinase 1 (RIP1) in a sample from a lung cancer patient who has undergone radiotherapy; (b) measuring an expression level of RIP1 in a normal control sample; and (c) comparing the expression levels of step (a) and step (b).

A pharmaceutical composition for treating cartilage dysplasia, comprising 1-[(3S)-3-[4-amino-3-[2-(3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)ethynyl]-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidin-1-yl]-1-pyrrolidinyl]-2-propen-1-one or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a treatment method using the pharmaceutical composition.

The present invention provides a method for evaluating effectiveness of a cell therapeutic agent. When using TGF-β and/or TSP-1 expression level(s) in: (a) a first population of transformed mammalian cells with TGF-β; and (b) a second population of untransformed mammalian cells with the same gene, respectively, as a criterion for determining effectiveness of a cell therapeutic agent, and whether or not expression thereof, it is possible to definitely determine the therapeutic efficacy of each cell therapeutic agent prior to initiation of the treatment. In addition, since use of a cell therapeutic agent without therapeutic effects is avoided, undesired procedures and side effects may not be entailed.

The present invention relates to the field of protein purification and relates in particular to novel proteins that bind to the soluble part of fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (sFGFR3). The invention further relates to fusion proteins comprising novel proteins that bind to sFGFR3. In addition, the invention relates to affinity matrices comprising the sFGFR3 binding proteins of the invention. The invention also relates to a use of these sFGFR3 binding proteins or affinity matrices for affinity purification of sFGFR3 nd to methods of affinity purification of sFGFR3 using the sFGFR3 binding proteins of the invention. Further uses relate to analytical methods for the determination of SFGFR3 in liquids.

The present invention relates to a novel antibody or an antigen binding fragment thereof that specifically binds to a human hepatocyte growth factor receptor (c-Met), and a composition for preventing or treating cancer, wherein the antibody shows an excellent cancer cell proliferation inhibitory activity and a remarkably excellent anticancer activity even by a little amount thereof, thus effectively preventing or treating cancer.