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Oct 23, 2026
Base to Base biotech podcast 81: Breakthrough in shrinking tumours and restoring mitochondrial metabolism to address obesity
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39:44Li-Fen LeeGUEST
I'll let Ken share how he overcome every challenge to identify a lead candidate with all the characteristics we were looking for.
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39:53Kan LuGUEST
Yeah, Jim, so we ran across challenges at basically every step of the drug discovery pathway with this molecule, just starting with the availability of reagents to study it.
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40:09Kan LuGUEST
From the very beginning, we quickly realized that anything available commercially for PLA2G2D doesn't really quite work because all of these proteins that you can buy off the shelf are mostly expressed in prokaryotes.
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Jim CornallHOST
And so for people that have cancer, what are you anticipating the positive effects will be for them?