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An open-science consortium on the undruggable drivers, open until a candidate

Companies and public funders would pool money and scientists to crack the hardest cancer proteins, such as MYC and mutant p53, sharing everything openly until there is a real drug candidate, then competing on the final product.

A consortium on the Structural Genomics Consortium and Open Targets model, but aimed at the highest-value undruggable oncology targets: MYC, mutant p53 reactivation, non-G12C RAS alleles beyond current inhibitors, fusion oncoproteins, transcription-factor and phosphatase targets. Members fund shared structural biology, chemical biology, degrader and molecular glue platforms and open probe generation, with an agreement that all results are published without patents up to the point of a validated chemical series, after which members may file and compete. The public benefit is a decade of duplicated, secret failure replaced by a shared map of what does and does not work.

Hypothesis
An open consortium of at least eight companies and three public funders produces open, potent chemical probes for at least three previously undrugged oncology target classes within six years and at least two members enter clinical development with compounds derived from consortium-enabled chemistry.
Rationale
SGC has released hundreds of structures and dozens of open chemical probes that seeded later drug programmes (including in epigenetics), demonstrating that competitors will share pre-competitive science; KRAS G12C became druggable through academic chemistry that was widely published, after which competition produced multiple drugs quickly.
What would test it
Constitute the consortium with a three-target initial portfolio and publish annual progress including negative results; success at year four is at least one open probe with demonstrated cellular activity per target class.
Maturity
early clinical
Who has to act
industry
Cost to try
Large (over $50M)
Years to first evidence
6
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