Oncology
Funding provides $16 million in support for Ontario cancer research Excerpt from the Press Release: December 2, 2021—Toronto—Today the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) announced funding for 16 studies as part of the Institute’s new Clinical Translation Pathway (CTP). These awards support pre-clinical research and new clinical trials that have a focus on early…
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December 1, 2021—Toronto— Today the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) announced renewed funding for its Adaptive Oncology (AO) research theme, which includes funding for three new research projects with the potential to have rapid clinical impact. Excerpt from the Press Release: he Adaptive Oncology theme was developed to anticipate and counter tumour evolution and…
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A consortium of quantum computing companies including Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) has secured a £6.85 million grant for a project that is looking to improve drug discovery in cancer. Excerpt from the Press Release: The consortium is being led by SEEQC and will look to accelerate the use of quantum computing within pharmaceutical research to…
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Charity Blood Cancer UK has teamed up with oncology company RareCan to support the organisation’s delivery of clinical trials focussed on the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of rare cancers. Excerpt from the Press Release: Blood cancer The partnership will see Blood Cancer UK join the charity network GIST Cancer UK as RareCan’s partner. The aim…
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– The potentially first-in-class inhibitor designed to target glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) has the potential to impact approximately 500,000 cancer patients with unmet therapeutic needs – BridgeBio and Helsinn have also established a non-exclusive framework agreement to identify and potentially co-develop and co-commercialize additional small molecule targeted oncology therapies – This framework agreement leverages BridgeBio’s…
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The interventional, multicenter, open-label Phase 2 basket trial will evaluate the safety and efficacy of milademetan in patients with MDM2-amplified advanced solid tumors Excerpt from the Press Release: NEWARK, Calif., Nov. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rain Therapeutics Inc. (NasdaqGS: RAIN), (“Rain”), a late-stage company developing precision oncology therapeutics, today announced that the first patient…
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Case series poster to be presented at the Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 18, 2021– Third paragraph, sixth sentence of release should read: CNSide detected CSF tumor cells in all eleven measurements taken, compared to six of eleven using cytology. (instead of CNSide detected CSF tumor cells…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: MADISON, Wis. and PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Exact Sciences Corp. (NASDAQ: EXAS) today announced an agreement with Jefferson Health (Jefferson) to conduct research on a new blood-based, multi-cancer earlier detection (MCED) test. This unique effort will engage primary care and specialty providers, care coordinators, and patients from diverse populations across the Jefferson enterprise in research that aims…
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— Wugen’s proprietary platform employs a GMP-grade, feeder cell-free manufacturing process to produce commercially scalable, off-the-shelf, non-engineered memory natural killer (NK) cell therapies with enhanced anti-tumor function — — Lead product candidate WU-NK-101 demonstrated potent anti-tumor activity and long-term persistence in vivo — — Data support ongoing clinical development of WU-NK-101 as best-in-class memory NK…
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Abivertinib is a novel third-generation epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor that irreversibly targets mutant forms of EGFR and Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) in advanced NSCLC patients resistant to first-line EGFR kinase inhibitor therapies. In this pivotal study conducted in China, 227 heavily pretreated NSCLC patients were enrolled and among 209 response evaluable patients, confirmed overall…
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