Oncology
Excerpt from the Press Release: WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: DCPH), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines to improve the lives of people with cancer, today announced two e-poster presentations at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting. The presentations include intra-patient dose escalation (IPDE) data from the INVICTUS Phase 3 study of QINLOCK in…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jun. 4, 2021– Magenta Therapeutics (Nasdaq: MGTA), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel medicines to bring the curative power of stem cell transplants to more patients, today announced additional positive results from a Phase 2 clinical trial of MGTA-145 and plerixafor in patients with multiple myeloma at the American Society…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO and STOCKHOLM, June 4th, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRNE, “Sorrento”) today announced that the Company has entered into an additional collaborative agreement with NextGenNK Competence Center-associated research groups at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet (“KI”) in Stockholm, Sweden, aimed at producing novel cell-based therapeutics using natural killer (“NK”) cells derived from…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cullinan Oncology, Inc. (Nasdaq: CGEM) (“Cullinan”), an oncology company seeking to drive shareholder returns by focusing on the patient, today announced additional details pertaining to Cullinan Pearl’s ongoing Phase 1/2a trial of CLN-081 in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) patients whose tumors harbor epidermal…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–As part of the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting, precision oncology company Lucence is sharing real-world data supporting clinical applications of its amplicon-based liquid biopsy assay. The data will be presented in on-demand virtual poster sessions, available beginning June 4 at 9 AM EDT. Lucence is also announcing…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & NEW ORLEANS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Harvard University has granted an exclusive license to biotechnology company Obatala Sciences to commercialize innovations that enable the study of human fat tissue in vitro. Harvard Office of Technology Development and Obatala, which manufactures stem cell and hydrogel products to enable next-generation therapeutics discovery, announced the agreement today. Obatala…
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Excerpt from the Article: PHILADELPHIA—An odor-based test that sniffs out vapors emanating from blood samples was able to distinguish between benign and pancreatic and ovarian cancer cells with up to 95 percent accuracy, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. The findings suggest that the Penn-developed tool…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON and LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — SOPHiA GENETICS, the creator of a global data-sharing network that advances data-driven medicine, today released SOPHiA DDM™ for Blood Cancers, novel blood cancer testing solutions across the entire workflow from setup, genomic testing, and in-house advanced analytics. The solutions target the most relevant DNA variants and RNA fusion genes…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A new clinically-validated saliva test has been shown to detect HPV-associated head and neck cancer with high accuracy, a first-of-its-kind study result. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis used the Naveris, Inc. test to analyze saliva for sequences of the human papilloma virus (HPV)…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON and MONTRÉAL, May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – enGene Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing non-viral gene therapies for local administration into mucosal tissues enabled by its proprietary DDX platform, today announced the dosing of the first patient in the LEGEND study, a first-in-human Phase 1/2 clinical trial of EG-70 in patients with BCG-unresponsive non-muscle…
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