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Excerpt from the Press Release: NEWTOWN, Pa., June 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Onconova Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ONTX) (“Onconova”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel products for patients with cancer, today announced the publication of a preclinical study in the journal Molecular Cancer. The study, entitled “Novel induction of CD40 expression by tumor…

Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, June 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ –IRISYS, LLC, a San Diego-based provider of contract pharmaceutical development and manufacturing services, announced today that it has been issued U.S. Patent No. 11,033,530, Liposomal Anticancer Compositions. IRISYS scientists discovered a new way to deliver well-known anticancer therapeutics that may someday enable physicians to treat cancer patients…

Excerpt from the Article: An antibiotic developed in the 1950s and largely supplanted by newer drugs, effectively targets and kills cancer cells with a common genetic defect, laboratory research by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists shows. The findings have spurred investigators to open a clinical trial of the drug, novobiocin, for patients whose tumors carry the abnormality. In…

Excerpt from the Press Release: STUDY SHOWS GUARDANT REVEAL™ BLOOD-ONLY LIQUID BIOPSY TEST PREDICTS RISK FOR COLORECTAL CANCER RECURRENCE WITH INDUSTRY-LEADING SENSITIVITY For patients with early-stage colorectal cancer (CRC), the presence of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) or minimal residual disease (MRD) after curative intent treatment is becoming an important prognostic biomarker for cancer recurrence, and can…

Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO and SUZHOU, China, June 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Innovent Biologics, Inc. (“Innovent”, HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high-quality medicines for the treatment of cancer, metabolic, autoimmune and other major diseases, announced that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase II basket trial of taletrectinib…

Excerpt from the Press Release: SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CytomX Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTMX), a clinical-stage oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company pioneering a novel class of investigational conditionally activated therapeutics based on its Probody® technology platform, today announced that results from its Phase 1 first-in-human study of CX-2029 in patients with advanced…

Excerpt from the Press Release: WATERTOWN, Mass., June 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Kymera Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: KYMR), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company advancing targeted protein degradation to deliver novel small molecule protein degrader medicines, today announced new preclinical data on its IRAKIMiD degrader KT-413’s potential as both a monotherapy and in combination with other anticancer…