Covant Therapeutics proclaims expertise in chemistry, proteomics, and deep learning, leveraged in developing covalent therapeutics. Co-founder Ben Ruprecht has over 10 years of expertise in spectrometry-based proteomics and chemoproteomics, acting as head of the Proteomics Platform at Covant.

Covant Therapeutics

As Covant Therapeutics continues to advance its Immunology & Inflammation portfolio, we are excited to grow the team welcoming our new Head of DMPK, Dr. Lucinda R. Hittle. 
Lucinda brings critical expertise and knowledge to strengthen our preclinical strategy and augment our capabilities.
#drugdiscovery #preclinical #dmpk #covalency

        
            
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                                                              Boehringer Ingelheim and Covant to collaborate on cancer immunotherapies

                                                                        The deal to develop a small-molecule inhibitor could be worth over $480m
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                Advancing Covalent Ligand and Drug Discovery beyond Cysteine
              

Coming back even more energized from a phenomenal meeting on the expansion of covalent therapeutics organized by the British Pharmacological Society, hosted at AstraZeneca.
It is invigorating and exciting to see how this research field and community continues to expand the repertoire of mechanisms of action (MoAs) to develop new medicines for patients in need.
The diversity of topics and speakers, with top academics such as (in a.o.) Brad L. Pentelute, Daniel Nomura, David Mann, Lyn Jones, and Nir London, young raising stars like Megan Matthews, Peter Cossar in academia, and Andrea Gohlke and Emma Grant in pharma (plus all those that presented their posters!), as well as established biotech and pharma professionals, packed in two days many lessons learned and forward thinking to continue to expand the reach of covalency in pharmaceutical research. 
My colleagues at Covant Therapeutics and I believe that covalent drug discovery is poised to grow, beyond molecular weight limits (e.g. peptides), beyond current target classes and subcell compartments (e.g. transcriptional machinery, the membranome), beyond single reactive amino acids (e.g. Lys, Tyr, His), beyond irreversibility (e.g. new chemistries), beyond oncology (e.g. I&I), and even further when efficiently combined with other modalities (e.g. glues). 
Wholehearted thanks to the organizing committee (kudos in a.o. to Bharath Srinivasan, Mark, S. B McAlister, Sarah Hewitt and Simon Lucas), the BPS staff (shoutout to Bonnie Rayner and Mariam Chahid), the session chairs, and the generous science sponsors that augment our own capabilities with their expertise (also in a.o. Applied Photophysics, Enzymlogic, Fida Biosystems, Genedata, OmicScouts, Pelago Bioscience AB, Promega Corporation , Selvita, and WuXi AppTec), without forgetting the Royal Society of Chemistry.
#drugdiscovery #covalency

Our Covant Therapeutics DMPK team, lead by Dr. Lucinda R. Hittle, braves the winter Boston cold (hopefully in its last season days) to enjoy live discussion forums. Late winter frostbite will not deter us from enjoying in-person #drugdiscovery discussions!


                Morita–Baylis–Hillman Adduct Chemistry as a Tool for the Design of Lysine-Targeted Covalent Ligands
              

PhoreMost appoints Professor Peter Parker and Dr Jason Imbriglio to Scientific Advisory Board - Cambridge Network

Covant Therapeutics Debuts with Boehringer Partnership Targeting ADAR1 - BioSpace

 Roivant’s Covant Therapeutics and BI join forces to explore covalent drug space 

If you are attending Hanson Wade’s Proteomics in Drug Discovery Summit, check out the workshop and talk of Jagat Adhikari, our Head of Structural Proteomics. Jagat will share insights and examples on how we use #DeepLearning to augment data acquisition and interpretation for both discovery (“bottom up”) and structural proteomics to enable target prosecution and lead finding.
#DrugDiscovery #Proteomics

Covant Therapeutics Announces the Formation of its Scientific Advisory Board to Support Platform and Pipeline Advancement - Yahoo Finance

        
            
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                                                    Covant Therapeutics announced an exclusive collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim.
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                                                              Covant Therapeutics Announces the Formation of its Scientific Advisory Board to Support Platform and Pipeline Advancement

                                                                        “This is a very exciting time for Covant as we continue to build our compelling pipeline of therapeutic programs”
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 Matt LaMarche on LinkedIn: Identification of Selective Imidazopyridine CSF1R Inhibitors 

Join the event to hear the latest on Covant Therapeutics mission and vision to create better drugs through covalency from Ivan Cornella-Taracido and Jamie Rice. 
#drugdiscovery #drugdevelopment #covalency

Thank you Kerry Holtham and Hanson Wade Group for organizing the second Covalent Drug Discovery & Development Summit.
On behalf of all my colleagues at Covant Therapeutics, it will be an honor to chair an event with a remarkable panel of subject matter experts from industry and academia.

Explore the program here: https://ter.li/bgq1f
#drugdiscovery #covalency

        
            
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                                                              With Boehringer Ingelheim’s help, Roivant churns out another Vant to go up against Endeavor, Impact founders

                                                                        Roivant Sciences has added another branch to its family tree, unveiling Covant Therapeutics with a $10 million upfront commitment from Boehringer Ingelheim to turn up the heat in cancer.
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 Covant Therapeutics on LinkedIn: Emerging and Re-emerging Warheads for Targeted Covalent Inhibitors: An… 

        
            
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                                                              March 28, 2023: Partnership Announced with Boehringer Ingelheim 

                                                                        Covant and Boehringer Ingelheim Collaborate to Develop a Novel ADAR1 Inhibitor for Use in Cancer Patients
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Roivant’s Covant Therapeutics and BI join forces to explore covalent drug space - MM+M Online

        
            
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                                                              Covant bonds with Boehringer in $481M covalency-driven oncology deal

                                                                        Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH has agreed to pay Covant Therapeutics Inc. $10 million for exclusive rights to the latter’s ADAR1-targeting immuno-oncology program.
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 Covant and Boehringer Ingelheim Collaborate to Develop a Novel ADAR1 Inhibitor for Use in Cancer Patients 

 Covant Therapeutics Appoints Vincent Hennemand as Chief Executive Officer 

Boehringer puts $481M on the line to pursue emerging cancer target in Covant team-up - Fierce Biotech

Covant bonds with Boehringer in $481M covalency-driven oncology deal - BioWorld MedTech


                Plasma IgG Glycosylation Profiling Reveals the Biological Features of Early Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
              

Covant Therapeutics - The Pharma Letter

Boehringer Ingelheim to acquire T3 Pharmaceuticals in deal worth over $500m - PMLiVE

Boehringer builds out cancer capabilities with $500M deal for bacteria-focused Swiss biotech - Fierce Biotech

With Boehringer Ingelheim’s help, Roivant churns out another Vant to go up against Endeavor, Impact founders - Endpoints News


              Emergence of irreversible modulation in drug discovery
            

At Covant Therapeutics we are excited to showcase our innovative capabilities and approach to target enablement and drug discovery. 
If you are in town next week attending Discovery & Development by Oxford Global US 2024, please stop by to hear and chat with our CSO and co-founder, Ivan Cornella-Taracido, about how we are reducing new ideas in covalency to practice to advance new therapeutics.

#OGDiscoveryUS24 #DiscoveryUS #DiscoveryUS24 #drugdiscovery #covalency

Congratulations on your well-deserved promotions Liz Brady, Christopher Dawson, and Keith P. Moore!

Proteomic Based Drug Discovery Summit 2025 - Pharmaphorum

On behalf of the whole team, congratulations Christine Kaiser on receiving Covant Catalyst award, for demonstrating our team #CoreValues in practice!
#science #leadership

Phenomenal work by the teams of Ben Cravatt and Michael Erb. Congratulations to all contributors!
At Covant Therapeutics we love the endorsement and evidence that covalent small molecules can enable transcriptional machinery regulation and druggability like never before. 
#drugdiscovery #covalency #targetenablement

        
            
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                                                              Covant Therapeutics Debuts with Boehringer Partnership Targeting ADAR1

                                                                        Boston-based Covant Therapeutics gained $10 million upfront in a deal with Boehringer Ingelheim to chase after a cancer immunotherapy target, ADAR1 (adenosine deaminase acting on RNA).
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Covant Therapeutics Appoints Vincent Hennemand as Chief Executive Officer - GlobeNewswire

On behalf of the whole Covant Therapeutics team, thank you Tudor Oprea, MD PhD!


                Orally Bioavailable and Site-Selective Covalent STING Inhibitor Derived from a Macrocyclic Marine Diterpenoid
              

        
            
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                                                              Covant and Boehringer link up to create ADAR1 inhibitor for cancer patients

                                                                        The companies jointly aim to develop a novel small molecule immunotherapy targeting ADAR1 to transform the lives of cancer patients.
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