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U.S. FDA Approves FoundationOne®CDx as a Companion Diagnostic for EGFR Therapeutics Targeting Exon 19 Deletions or Exon 21 Substitutions in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

03/24/2022

Foundation Medicine’s tissue-based test is the first and only comprehensive genomic profiling test to be approved as a companion diagnostic for a third group of targeted therapies Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Foundation Medicine, Inc. a pioneer in molecular profiling for cancer, today announced it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug…

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LYNPARZA® (olaparib) reduced risk of death by 32% in the adjuvant treatment of patients with germline BRCA-mutated high-risk early breast cancer

03/24/2022

First PARP inhibitor to demonstrate overall survival benefit in early breast cancer Excerpt from the Press Release: WILMINGTON, Del.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AstraZeneca and Merck & Co., Inc., known as MSD outside the US and Canada, today announced further positive results from the OlympiA Phase III trial showed LYNPARZA® (olaparib) demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in…

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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS CHANGING FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING ADHERENCE

03/24/2022

– Freenome examines thirty years of studies to understand differences in predictors of adherence across care settings– Recent studies highlight increased awareness of patient environment and clinical site factors as key predictors of adherence Excerpt from the Press Release: SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Freenome, a privately held biotech company, presented research at the American Society…

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Iovance Biotherapeutics’ Investigational New Drug Application (IND) Allowed to Proceed for TALEN®-Edited Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocyte (TIL) in Unresectable or Metastatic Melanoma and Stage III or IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

03/23/2022

Clinical Study Expected to Begin in 2022 to Investigate the Safety and Efficacy of IOV-4001 to Deliver TIL and PD-1 Inhibition within a Single Cancer Therapy First Genetically Modified Iovance TIL Therapy Leverages TALEN® technology Licensed from Cellectis to Inactivate PD-1 Expression Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN CARLOS, Calif., March 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Iovance…

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Bladder EpiCheck® Included in 2022 European Association of Urology (EAU) Clinical Guidelines on Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (NMIBC)

03/23/2022

Clinical Guidelines Support Adoption of Urinary Biomarker Tests with High Sensitivity and Negative Predictive Values for High-Grade Disease to Replace and/or Postpone Cystoscopies in Low- and Intermediate-Risk NMIBC Publication of Meta-Analysis in European Urology Oncology Showed Bladder EpiCheck has Best Performance Amongst Guideline-Recommended Urinary Biomarker Tests Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO & REHOVOT,…

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BostonGene and Thomas Jefferson University Announce Publication in Clinical Cancer Research Predicting Immunotherapy Response for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer

03/23/2022

Excerpt from the Press Release: WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BostonGene Corporation and Thomas Jefferson University announced the online publication of the manuscript, “Tadalafil enhances immune response to neoadjuvant nivolumab in resectable head and neck squamous cell carcinoma”in the American Association for Cancer Research journal Clinical Cancer Research.The study revealed pretreatment head and neck squamous cell carcinoma specimens contain…

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Werewolf Therapeutics Announces Publication of Data Demonstrating the Preclinical Efficacy of WTX-124 in Delivering IL-2 Selectively to the Tumor Microenvironment

03/22/2022

Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Werewolf Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company” or “Werewolf”) (Nasdaq: HOWL), an innovative biopharmaceutical company pioneering the development of conditionally activated therapeutics, announced the publication in Cancer Immunology Research of preclinical data for its lead molecule WTX-124, a systemically delivered Interleukin-2 (IL-2) INDUKINE™ molecule. The…

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Exelixis Announces Final Overall Survival Results from Phase 3 COSMIC-312 Trial of Cabozantinib in Combination with an Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor in Patients with Previously Untreated Advanced Liver Cancer

03/22/2022

Excerpt from the Press Release: ALAMEDA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Exelixis, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXEL) today announced results from the final analysis of the second primary endpoint of overall survival (OS) from the phase 3 COSMIC-312 trial, which evaluated cabozantinib (CABOMETYX®) in combination with atezolizumab versus sorafenib in patients with previously untreated advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The final analysis…

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IDEAYA Biosciences Reports IDE397 Interim Phase 1 Clinical Data

03/22/2022

Observed preclinical complete suppression (~95-100%) of tumor SDMA in multiple MTAP-deleted patient derived xenograft (PDX) models across indications Interim IDE397 clinical data demonstrates robust plasma pharmacodynamic modulation, exceeding target of >60% reduction of plasma SAM across all evaluated cohorts Observed clinical exposure-dependent reduction of tumor pharmacodynamic biomarker SDMA in target tumor types, including 95% reduction…

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The Lancet Publishes Positive Results from Capricor Therapeutics’ Phase 2 Study Evaluating CAP-1002 in Late-Stage Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

03/21/2022

-One-Year Final Data Highlights Lead Cell Therapy Asset, CAP-1002, for Safety and Efficacy in Slowing Upper Limb and Cardiac Function Deterioration in Patients- -Data Sets Stage for Pivotal Phase 3 HOPE-3 Clinical Trial- Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, March 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Capricor Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CAPR), a biotechnology company focused on the development…

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