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Apros: Engineering tissue-targeted TLR agonists

Emerging Company Profile: Apros is developing a pipeline of five TLR7 agonists targeting different tissues

February 5, 2021 1:04 AM UTC

Apros is developing a suite of tissue-targeted TLR7 agonists for indications ranging from cancer to infectious disease that aim to avoid systemic toxicities that have plagued the drug class. 

Lead candidate APR003, a TLR7 agonist designed to home to the liver and gastrointestinal tissue, entered Phase I testing this week to treat patients with unresectable colorectal cancer with malignant liver lesions...