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August 26, 2026

Vivace Therapeutics Strengthens Leadership Team as It Prepares to Advance VT3989, the First TEAD Inhibitor to enter Phase 3 Clinical Trials, as the Leading Treatment for Mesothelioma

October 19, 2025

VT3989, Vivace Therapeutics’ Best-in-Class, Hippo Pathway-Targeting Therapy, Demonstrates Promising Antitumor Activity in Refractory Mesothelioma

October 9, 2025

New Clinical Data for Vivace Therapeutics’ Best-in-Class, Hippo Pathway-Targeting Therapy to be Presented in Oral Presentation at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2025

October 8, 2025

Vivace Therapeutics’ VT3989 Granted Fast Track Designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the Treatment of Mesothelioma

July 30, 2025

Vivace Therapeutics Announces Receipt of Orphan Drug Designation for VT3989 for Treatment of Mesothelioma

March 12, 2025

Vivace Therapeutics Raises $35 Million in Series D Financing to Support Clinical Development of First-in-Class Cancer Drug Targeting the Hippo Pathway

April 16, 2023

Researchers Report Clinical Proof-of-Concept Data for Vivace Therapeutics’ VT3989, a First for a Cancer Drug Targeting the Hippo Pathway, in Oral Presentation at AACR 2023

March 15, 2023

Vivace Therapeutics to Unveil First Clinical Data for a Cancer Drug Targeting the Hippo Pathway

April 13, 2022

Vivace Therapeutics Presents New Preclinical Data Highlighting Strong Synergistic Activity for Combination of VT3989 and Osimertinib at American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2022

Safety and efficacy of first-in-class, YAP/TEAD inhibitor, VT3989 in refractory pleural and non-pleural mesothelioma: A Phase I/II study

Targeting the Hippo pathway in cancer

First-in-class, first-in-human phase 1 trial of VT3989, an inhibitor of Yes-Associated Protein (YAP)/Transcriptional Enhancer Activator Domain (TEAD), in patients with advanced solid tumors enriched for malignant mesothelioma and other tumors with neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) mutations

February 25, 2022

Transcriptional repression of estrogen receptor alpha by YAP reveals the Hippo pathway as therapeutic target for ER+ breast cancer

Small Molecule Inhibitors of TEAD Auto-palmitoylation Selectively Inhibit Proliferation and Tumor Growth of NF2-deficient Mesothelioma

December 19, 2019

The Hippo Pathway: Biology and Pathophysiology

Targeting the Hippo-YAP Pathway with novel small molecule inhibitors of the YAP-TEAD transcription activity

Hippo Pathway in Organ Size Control, Tissue Homeostasis, and Cancer

The Hippo Pathway and Human Cancer

36th EORTC-NCI-AACR SYMPOSIUM October 2024

October 23, 2024

Evaluating the Use of Merlin-YAP Dual-label Immunohistochemistry for Predicting Response to TEAD Inhibitor VT3989

AACR Annual Meeting 2024

April 5, 2024

Comparing TEAD Palmitoylation Inhibitors with Differential TEAD Selectivity in Combination Efficacy with Targeted Therapies and in Renal Safety

AACR-NCI-EORTC Molecular Targets Conference 2023

October 11, 2023

VT3989, a clinical TEAD palmitoylation inhibitor, enhances the efficacy and durability of multiple targeted therapies of the MAPK and PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathways

World Conference on Lung Cancer 2023

September 9, 2023

First-in-human phase 1 trial of VT3989, a first-in-class YAP/TEAD inhibitor in patients with advanced mesothelioma

AACR 2023

April 4, 2023

Predicting cancer cell response to TEAD auto-palmitoylation inhibitor using bulk RNA-seq data and a random-forest based algorithm

AACR 2022

June 15, 2022

The TEAD autopalmitoylation inhibitor VT3989 improves efficacy and increases durability of efficacy of osimertinib in preclinical EGFR mutant tumor models