New discovery: Compounds that target enzyme MAP4K3
Daruka Mahadevan, MD, PhD, division chief, hematology-oncology, director of the Institute of Drug Development and associate director for clinical research at Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio and his team have identified a series of small molecule compounds that target an enzyme, MAP4K3, important to amino acid signaling in autophagy, impacting neurologic diseases and cancer.