Lantern Pharma is a Texas company that uses its RADR machine-learning platform to revive shelved cancer drugs; LP-184 is a DNA-damaging agent activated in tumours with DNA repair defects, including glioblastoma.
Lantern Pharma applies its RADR artificial-intelligence platform to match small molecules with the tumours and biomarkers most likely to respond. LP-184 is an acylfulvene prodrug activated by the enzyme PTGR1 that causes DNA damage in cells with defective nucleotide excision repair; it is in phase 1 trials in solid tumours and, as LP-184 for glioblastoma, holds orphan and fast track designations. LP-284 targets B-cell lymphomas and LP-300 is in a phase 2 trial in never-smokers with lung adenocarcinoma.
LP-184 is a small-molecule inhibitor from Lantern Pharma Inc., in registered phase 2 trials for triple-negative breast cancer, non-small-cell lung cancer, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.