Cancer Research
Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kirilys Therapeutics, Inc., a private, preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded by investment firm Catalys Pacific, announced today that the Company completed a seed financing led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company licensed its lead compound, KRLS-017, from Ube Industries, Ltd., a premier Japanese chemical manufacturer. The company also completed…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Broncus Medical (02216HK), Inc., developer of diagnostic and therapeutic technology for a variety of lung diseases, today announced online publication in the Respirology journal of a global, multicenter study demonstrating the effectiveness of the company’s Archimedes® Virtual Bronchoscopic Navigation (VBN) System in guiding the sampling of peripheral…
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CHMP recommendation follows September 2021 U.S. FDA approval of CABOMETYX in this setting – Excerpt from the Press Release: ALAMEDA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Exelixis, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXEL) today announced that its partner Ipsen received a positive opinion from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), the scientific committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), for CABOMETYX® (cabozantinib) as…
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First two cohorts indicate pelareorep in combination with paclitaxel was well-tolerated with no new safety signals observed to date Trial is designed to satisfy regulatory requirements and accelerate pelareorep’s development in large and rapidly growing pharmaceutical markets, including China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea Final cohort’s dosing regimen is equivalent to Oncolytics’ North American phase 2 trial in…
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In a Nature Communications Medicine publication, the Verita™ proprietary platform detected 96 percent of stage 1 pancreatic cancers and three-quarters of stage 1 ovarian cancers using isolated exosomes and AI-enabled protein marker analysis Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Biological Dynamics, Inc. announces the publication of its study, Early-Stage Multi-Cancer Detection Using an Extracellular Vesicle…
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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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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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– 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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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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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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