Oncology
Excerpt from the Press Release: OUTH SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, and MediSix Therapeutics, a cell therapy company creating novel therapeutics to target T-cell leukemia and lymphoma, today announced a collaboration to discover novel antibodies against…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif., March 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Anixa Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANIX), a biotechnology company focused on the treatment and prevention of cancer and infectious diseases, today announced the initiation of a Phase 1 trial evaluating its novel chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy in ovarian cancer. The CAR-T approach used for Anixa’s therapy…
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Addition of relacorilant to nab-paclitaxel reduces risk of death by 33 percent compared to treatment with nab-paclitaxel alone (p-value: 0.066), without increased side effects Excluding patients (i) who had not responded to even their first treatment with a platinum-based therapy (“primary platinum-refractory” patients) or (ii) who had received four or more prior lines of therapy,…
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Genentech Provides Update on Phase III SKYSCRAPER-02 Study in Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer
SKYSCRAPER-02, the first randomized study of tiragolumab in extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC), did not meet its co-primary endpoint of progression-free survival ES-SCLC is a hard-to-treat disease and Tecentriq plus chemotherapy remains a standard of care Tiragolumab continues to be evaluated in non-small cell lung cancer and other cancer types through additional Phase III…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON, March 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TransCode Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNAZ), the RNA oncology company committed to defeating cancer using RNA therapeutics, in collaboration with teams from, Massachusetts General Hospital, Michigan State University and Northeastern University, published an article in the journal Cancers titled, Clinical Applications of Short Non-Coding RNA-Based Therapies in the…
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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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