Cancer Research

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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GT Biopharma Presented Preclinical Data Demonstrating Novel Mesothelin-Targeted TriKE® Driving Cytotoxicity Across All Stages of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer at ESMO TAT 2022

03/18/2022

– Results suggest that mesothelin-targeted TriKE can work alongside current standard of care and provide benefit even in the hypoxic environment of a solid tumor Excerpt from the Press Release: BRISBANE, Calif., March 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — GT Biopharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: GTBP), a clinical stage immuno-oncology company focused on developing innovative therapeutics based on the Company’s proprietary tri-specific…

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Intellia Therapeutics Receives U.S. FDA Orphan Drug Designation for NTLA-5001 for the Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia

03/17/2022

NTLA-5001, a novel T cell receptor (TCR)-T cell therapy, is currently being evaluated in a Phase 1/2a study in adults with persistent or recurrent acute myeloid leukemia Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTLA), a leading clinical-stage genome editing company focused on developing potentially curative…

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Cellevolve Announces Expansive Global Collaboration with Seattle Children’s Therapeutics to Advance Research for Childhood Brain Cancers

03/15/2022

 The Company Also Announced Immunotherapy Pioneer Dr. Michael Jensen as Founding Advisor  Broad research collaboration focuses on BrainChild program, a suite of five multiplex chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) that initially targets pediatric central nervous system (CNS) malignancies with limited therapeutic options. Cellevolve will also leverage Seattle Children’s renowned Cure Factory® facility for early clinical Good…

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Coherus and Junshi Biosciences Announce Positive Results from Phase 3 Esophageal Cancer Study of Toripalimab Published in Cancer Cell

03/14/2022

– Toripalimab plus chemotherapy demonstrates improvement in co-primary endpoints of PFS and OS in patients with advanced ESCC – – PFS and OS benefits were observed across all PD-L1 expression subgroups, including in patients with low PD-L1 expression – Excerpt from the Press Release: REDWOOD CITY, Calif., and SHANGHAI, China, March 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —…

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