Ipafricept

Ipafricept (OMP-54F28; FZD8-Fc) is a first class recombinant fusion protein with the extracellular part of the human frizzled-8 receptor fused to a human IgG1 Fc fragment that binds Wnt ligands, which blocks Wnt signaling. Ipafricept reduces tumor growth and results in a decrease in both liver and lung metastases combined with Gemcitabine (HY-17026) in pancreatic cancer mouse models. Ipafricept shows solid tumor inhibition activity with well tolerance, such as desmoid tumor, germ cell cancer, ovarian cancer[1][2][3].

[1]Jimeno A, et al. A First-in-Human Phase I Study of the Anticancer Stem Cell Agent Ipafricept (OMP-54F28), a Decoy Receptor for Wnt Ligands, in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors. Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Dec 15;23(24):7490-7497. |[2]Fischer MM, et al. WNT antagonists exhibit unique combinatorial antitumor activity with taxanes by potentiating mitotic cell death. Sci Adv. 2017 Jun 21;3(6):e1700090.|[3]Li Y, et al. Peptide RL-QN15 regulates epidermal stem cell function to accelerate wound healing via the FZD8/β-catenin axis[J]. Authorea Preprints, 2024.