Black Diamond Therapeutics Announces Publication of New Computational and Functional Analyses of HER2 Mutations Based on its Proprietary MAP Discovery Engine

– Peer-reviewed publication highlights 22 new oncogenic HER2 driver mutations identified and experimentally validated with MAP discovery engine –

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and NEW YORK, May 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Black Diamond Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: BDTX), a precision oncology medicine company pioneering the discovery and development of MasterKey therapies, today announced the publication of data identifying new oncogenic HER2 allosteric mutations that support the Mutation-Allostery-Pharmacology (MAP) discovery engine’s capabilities and further suggest the need for novel inhibitors to treat HER2-mutant cancers. The paper, titled “Computational and Functional Analyses of HER2 Mutations Revealing Allosteric Activation Mechanisms and Altered Pharmacologic Effects” by Ishiyama et al. was published online by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)’s Cancer Research Journal on May 3, 2022.

“At the core of our precision medicine approach to cancer treatment is the ability to identify new, full spectrum oncogenic mutations. This study provides strong rationale for the power of our MAP discovery engine as we identified new oncogenic HER2 allosteric mutations that further suggest the need for novel treatment options. These findings support our overall approach to cancer treatment by demonstrating the value and importance of oncogenicity prediction, biological validation, protein conformation-based drug design and MasterKey inhibitor development against mutation families,” said Elizabeth Buck, Chief Scientific Officer of Black Diamond Therapeutics. “In this study, Black Diamond’s proprietary MAP-scoring and functional validation analyses were able to provide new insights into the oncogenic activity and therapeutic targeting of HER2 mutations in cancer in addition to identifying 22 new oncogenic HER2 mutations. As the number of unique mutations across cancers is expected to rise over time, there remains a need for an effective means of identification of oncogenic mutations. We believe that our MAP technology has the potential to fill this gap and provide critical insights for the use of precision medicine to treat cancers driven by rare oncogenic mutations.”

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