Invited Speaker Oral Presentation Inaugural Australian Ubiquitin Summit 2025

Advances in the systematic discovery of molecular glue degraders (132249)

Eric Fischer 1
  1. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

In recent years, the co-opting of ubiquitin ligases by small molecules for the targeted protein degradation of disease-causing proteins has emerged as a powerful pharmacologic modality. While the discovery of PROTACs has become a mainstay of drug discovery, discovery of novel molecular glue degraders particularly beyond CRBN modulators remains a major challenge for the field. I will present recent work on understanding the principles that govern molecular glue interactions, updates on our discovery platforms and recent examples of success to target novel and previously undruggable neo-substrates and to expand the repertoire of ligases enabled for molecular glues.