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Chordoma Foundation's patient driven research laboratory 100% dedicated to accelerating cures for chordoma.

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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Huge congrats and thanks to the team behind this foundational study, particularly Caty Lee-Chang, JP Wolinsky, Victor Arrieta, Jessica Du and colleagues. We're excited to work with them and others to bring targeted immunotherapy to chordoma patients building on these new insights!
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
- Demonstrates tumor-specific antigen recognition by tumor-resident and peripheral T cells, suggesting potential for adoptive T cell strategies
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
- Suggests important roles for myeloid cells in regulating anti-tumor immunity, consistent with several prior studies but providing additional nuance - Identifies several potential mechanisms of immune evasion in chordoma and suggests potential strategies for overcoming this evasion
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
In brief, it: - Provides the largest spatial data set to date including single cell RNA-seq, TCR profiling and multiplex immunoflourescence - Reveals three distinct patterns of immune cell composition in chordoma tumors, potentially pointing to a need for treatment strategies tailored for each
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Important new paper from @neurosurgerynm.bsky.social and several collaborators reveals critical features of the chordoma immune landscape and lays the foundation for chordoma patients to benefit from immunotherapy advances. 🧵 academic.oup.com/neuro-oncolo...
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Integrated Immune Profiling of Chordomas Reveals Spatially Organized Niches and Functional Heterogeneity
AbstractBackground. Chordomas are locally aggressive notochordal tumors with no systemic therapy options. As an ultra-rare cancer type, our understanding o
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Latest negative result: Response of chordoma cell lines to treatment with the KIF18A inhibitor sovilnesib (AMG 650), as a single agent and in combination with gemcitabine figshare.com/articles/fig...
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Response of chordoma cell lines to treatment with the KIF18A inhibitor sovilnesib (AMG 650), as a single agent and in combination with gemcitabine
To evaluate KIF18A inhibitors as a potential therapeutic target, chordoma cell lines were treated with sovilnesib. A panel of four chordoma cell lines was seeded in a white-walled 96-well plate so tha...
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
monitoring the situation as a shipment of precious chordoma samples from our biobank flys to Melbourne for our collaborators in the Firestein lab at @hudsonresearch.bsky.social ✈️ 🇦🇺
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
- PKMYT1 inhibitor Lunresertib - BRG1/BRM inhibitor FHD-286 - DNA Polymerase θ inhibitor ART558 - Aurora A kinase inhibitor Alisertib - DNA-PK inhibitor M3814 - PRMT5 inhibitor AMG 193 - GCL inhibitors, Target 831-P2 and Target S, S-408-P2
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Positive results are celebrated, but we think sharing negative results is important too. In case helpful to anyone, here are compounds we tested in vitro in recent months which didn't show substantial activity as single agents or synergy with known active compounds: figshare.com/authors/Chor...
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
We’re hiring for a new role on our research team. It'll be an opportunity to advance interesting science, to work in a nimble and empowering environment, and, to make a tangible impact in the lives of patients in urgent need of new treatment options. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
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Chordoma Foundation hiring Director of Preclinical Research in Durham, NC | LinkedIn
Posted 12:34:07 PM. The Chordoma Foundation is seeking an experienced and high-agency individual to support the…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The TBXT rs2305089 SNP links the benign notochordal cell tumour and chordoma pathsocjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The TBXT rs2305089 SNP links the benign notochordal cell tumour and chordoma
The aim of this research was to investigate the pathogenesis of the bone cancer chordoma and the role of the germline rs2305089 SNP in TBXT. Using medical imaging and genotyping studies, we observed ....
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
We’re excited about the potential of your team’s approach!
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Daniel Alvarez @daninthenet.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Interesting new challenge similar in spirit to the well known CACHE!!
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
For all the gains AI affords in compound design and discovery, experimental validation still remains a bottleneck. But we're making that part easy for the cancer target TBXT with a suite of biophysical, in vitro and in vivo assay capabilities—plus prizes for potent binders: tbxtchallenge.org
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TBXT CHALLENGE – Make history in drug discovery
Make history in drug discovery
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Congrats @ghazivakili.bsky.social! If the ability to experimentally verify your model's performance for another currently undruggable target would be helpful, we can make that easy for the transcription factor TBXT—and we're offering a prize for discovery of potent ligands: tbxtchallenge.org
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TBXT CHALLENGE – Make history in drug discovery
Make history in drug discovery
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Congrats @jchodera.bsky.social! If the ability to experimentally verify your models' performance for a currently undruggable target would be of interest, we can make that easy for the transcription factor TBXT—and we're offering a prize if the model identifies potent ligands: tbxtchallenge.org
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TBXT CHALLENGE – Make history in drug discovery
Make history in drug discovery
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The Institute of Cancer Research @icr.ac.uk · 15/02/2025
📰 Prof Paul Workman, our former CEO, along with his team in our Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery, have made a breakthrough that could lead to new drugs for #chordoma — a rare #BoneCancer that led to the death of his mother. Read more in @theguardian.com ⤵️ www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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British professor makes ‘thrilling’ breakthrough for cancer that killed his mother
Paul Workman has researched untreatable chordoma for years. Now new technology points towards to a potential drug to beat it
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
So others don't have to reinvent the wheel, we've developed and offer capabilities to support TBXT drug discovery including purified protein production, SPR and various functional assays. For more info see below or get in touch: researchteam@chordoma.org www.chordomafoundation.org/researchers/...
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Catalyzing TBXT Drug Discovery
TBXT, also called Brachyury, is a key driver and genetic dependency of chordoma, and is associated with disease progression in various other tumor types.…
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
We're excited to see how others build on these data including to compete in the TBXT Challenge (offering >$500K in prizes for more potent binders) tbxtchallenge.org
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TBXT CHALLENGE – Make history in drug discovery
Make history in drug discovery
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Crucial building blocks for drugging TBXT (brachyury) published by @ox.ac.uk @icr.ac.uk @uncchapelhill.bsky.social team including crystal structure, discovery of ligandable pockets, and compounds that could serve as starting points for inhibitors or degraders www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Structural insights into human brachyury DNA recognition and discovery of progressible binders for cancer therapy - Nature Communications
This study describes structures of the transcription factor brachyury revealing the mechanism of DNA recognition. They identify fragments using X-ray fragment screening and optimize these into potent ...
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#chemsky & #compchem peeps, we need your help drugging a difficult target: TBXT (brachyury), a transcription factor critical for our disease, chordoma, and implicated in other cancers. We can offer enabling resources, free SPR analysis and now $500K+ in prizes for TBXT ligands: tbxtchallenge.org
tbxtchallenge.org
TBXT CHALLENGE – Make history in drug discovery
Make history in drug discovery
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Congrats! This is an exciting approach. Any interest in giving it a try on a transcription factor? We can perform SPR for binding to the cancer associated TF TBXT and are offering prizes for compounds with <1uM Kd. tbxtchallenge.org
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TBXT CHALLENGE – Make history in drug discovery
Make history in drug discovery
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
If you're interested in competing or have questions or suggestions, we'd love to hear from you. Please get in touch at TBXTchallenge@chordoma.org.
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
We hope this competition will not only accelerate discovery of urgently needed TBXT drugs, but may also serve as an opportunity to validate technologies and approaches capable of addressing other undruggable targets.
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
We invite companies and academic investigators to submit up to 96 compounds for free biophysical evaluation. Results will be returned confidentially and competitors retain ownership of their IP and data.
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Two prize levels are available: $250,000 for compounds with Kd less than 300 nM and $100,000 for Kd less than 1 μM. Prizes will be awarded to up to three winners.
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#chemsky & #compchem peeps, we need your help drugging a difficult target: TBXT (brachyury), a transcription factor critical for our disease, chordoma, and implicated in other cancers. We can offer enabling resources, free SPR analysis and now $500K+ in prizes for TBXT ligands: tbxtchallenge.org
tbxtchallenge.org
TBXT CHALLENGE – Make history in drug discovery
Make history in drug discovery
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
We're deeply grateful to our team, our collaborators, and the many supporters who make this work possible. Stay tuned for more on each of these projects!
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Finally, Tyler Vincent presented a poster describing a suite of new capabilities we've developed to enable the identification, optimization and validation of TBXT (brachyury) targeted molecules. Honored this won best poster in the Basic Science category. chordomafoundation.imgix.net/2024_CF_TBXT...
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In a poster our CSO Dan Freed presented findings that chordoma cell lines exhibit striking differential sensitivity to afatinib, which is associated with interferon (IFN) signaling. Honored this won best in the Tumor Heterogeneity and Resistance category. chordomafoundation.imgix.net/CTOS_EGFRi-b...
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
First, Nindo Punturi presented our findings that gemcitabine induces ATR pathway activation, and the combination of gemcitabine and ATR inhibition is highly synergistic in chordoma models, suggesting replication stress as a targetable vulnerability in chordoma. bsky.app/profile/cfla...
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Our team recently attended the Connective Tissue Oncology Society (CTOS) annual meeting and presented on three areas of ongoing research in the lab: targeting replication stress, biomarkers of EGFR inhibitor sensitivity, and capabilities to enable TBXT (brachyury) drug discovery. 🧵
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Chordoma Foundation scientists share results at international sarcoma…
This was Chordoma Foundation Labs' first invited oral presentation at a major professional conference, and our two posters won recognition as best in…
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Nice work from @dkfz.bsky.social defining TBXT regulome.
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Building on recent findings that GPX4 is a genetic essentiality in chordoma, we’ve demonstrated that GPX4 inhibition induces ferroptotic cell death, suggesting #ferroptosis susceptibility may be a targetable vulnerability in chordoma. Results now on Figshare: figshare.com/articles/fig...
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Confirmed our recent observation of synergism between gemcitabine and ATR inhibition in two additional cell lines, latest data now on Figshare figshare.com/articles/fig...
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Gemcitabine and ATR inhibitor synergism and effects on the cell cycle and DNA damage in CH22 and U-CH17PII (Batch 2)
(A.) Treatment regime diagram. Cells were treated in 4 groups. Treatment additions are represented as colored circles. Combination treatment additions were administered 24 hours after the first treatm...
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
We’re continuing to explore these concepts and will post further results when available. In the meantime, we’d love to hear if these results spark any hypotheses/questions/ideas and are always open to suggestions or opportunities to collaborate.
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
Relatedly, we also found that gemcitabine significantly enhances the effect of the WEE1 inhibitor azenosertib. figshare.com/articles/fig...
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Evaluation of the response of chordoma cell lines to WEE1 kinase inhibitor, azenosertib, as a single agent and in combination with gemcitabine
A panel of 4 chordoma cell lines was plated in a white-walled 96-well plate to evaluate response to azenosertib, a WEE1 kinase inhibitor, as a single agent treatment and azenosertib with gemcitabine a...
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
Furthermore, combination treatment with gemcitabine – when given 24 hours in advance of elimusertib – enhances DNA damage and promotes replication catastrophe. figshare.com/articles/fig...
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Gemcitabine and ATR inhibitor synergism and effects on DNA damage and the cell cycle (Batch 1)
(A.) Treatment regime diagram. Cells were treated in 4 groups. Combination treatment additions were administered 24 hours after the first treatment addition. Due to doubling times and drug effects, ce...
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
We’ve previously reported (at AACR ‘23) that the ATR inhibitor elimusertib and gemcitabine show promising efficacy in chordoma models. Recently we’ve found that low doses of gemcitabine substantially enhance the effect of elimusertib in proliferation assays. figshare.com/articles/fig...
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The synergistic effects of the gemcitabine and ATRi combination in chordoma
(A. and B.) UM-Chor1, U-CHCF365, CH22, U-CH17PII, UM-Chor5D, and U-CH2 cells were plated in a white-walled 96-well plate to evaluate the synergistic effect between gemcitabine and ATR inhibition. The ...
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
We're studying replication stress in chordoma, and have recently identified several therapeutic approaches that exploit this vulnerability. Here are 3 new figures we’ve put on Figshare to enable others to build on our findings before they’re published. 👇
Chordoma cells stained with DAPI and Gamma-H2AX
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
Hi! We're joining @bsky.app from Twitter. Our feed there is at x.com/CFLabsResearch. We're here to share recent developments from our lab and from the broader chordoma research field, as well as to connect with and learn from others with overlapping research interests/expertise.
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