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News and Trends 2 Mar 2023

Partnership formed to develop miRNA to treat pancreatic cancer

RNA delivery and therapeutics company SiSaf Ltd is to collaborate with the University of Leipzig in Germany to develop targeted micro interfering RNAs (miRNA) for the treatment of cancer, with an initial focus on pancreatic cancer. The collaboration will combine SiSaf’s work in RNA delivery using its Bio-Courier silicon-stabilized hybrid lipid nanoparticles (sshLNPs) and the […]

March 2, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Feb 2023

What’s happening on Rare Disease Day?

Rare Disease Day 2023 is on February 28. The day is dedicated to raising awareness for the approximately 300 million people around the world living with a rare disease. More than 6,000 rare diseases are characterized by a diversity of disorders and symptoms that vary not only from disease to disease, but also from patient […]

February 28, 2023 - 8 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Feb 2023

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Cartherics to work on CAR-T cell therapy for ovarian cancer

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac) in Australia and Cartherics Pty Ltd have entered into a collaborative development program agreement (CDPA) to develop Cartherics’ proprietary autologous CAR-T cell therapy (CTH-004) for the treatment of ovarian cancer. The clinical trial to be conducted by Peter Mac will be the first time a CAR-T cell therapy product […]

February 28, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Feb 2023

Researchers discover how tumor cells become resistant to colorectal cancer chemotherapy

Platinum-based chemotherapy, which is used to treat advanced colorectal cancer, accumulates in the healthy cells surrounding the cancer cells and, as a result, can reduce tumor sensitivity to treatment. This is demonstrated by a study published in the journal Nature Communications by the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM-Hospital del Mar), in collaboration with […]

February 24, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Feb 2023

New promising targeted drug for a rare leukemia

Targeted drugs have been developed to supplement chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer. These drugs only affect cancer cells, leaving healthy cells alone. Venetoclax is a new targeted therapy option for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). It was recently granted marketing authorization in Finland. Venetoclax works by sensitizing cancer cells to programmed cell […]

February 23, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

CAR-T cell therapy, cancer therapy, cell therapy

Interview 17 Feb 2023

The benefits – and challenges – of in-house CAR T-cell therapy

The Sheba Medical Center in Israel has an advanced hemato-oncology center that offers in-house CAR T-cell therapy, the revolutionary immunotherapy that alters a patient’s white blood cells to kill cancer cells. By keeping the entire process at the hospital, and not sending the cells to an external lab, the quality of the T-cells are better […]

February 17, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 17 Feb 2023

Report: China leads the way with phase 1 studies

Novotech, an Asia Pacific biotech CRO, has published a new global report on phase 1 trial activity including current metrics on fast growth regions and therapeutic areas. The data analysis found that Asia Pacific has been the fastest-growing region for phase 1 clinical trials in the last 10 years, reaching a share of 58% in […]

February 17, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 17 Feb 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 34: eClinical Solutions, GPCR Therapeutics, Orbsen Therapeutics

Our Beyond Biotech podcast 34 guests are Katrina Rice, chief delivery officer, biometrics services at eClinical Solutions; Pina Cardarelli, president and CSO of GPCR Therapeutics; and Larry A Couture, CEO of Orbsen Therapeutics. GPCR Therapeutics launches multiple myeloma trial GPCR Therapeutics, Inc., a drug discovery company targeting G Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCR) pairs, recently started […]

February 17, 2023

News and Trends 16 Feb 2023

Bladder cancer investigational therapy may be given at home

UroGen Pharma Ltd. has announced preliminary results of a study to assess the feasibility of home instillation of UGN-102 (mitomycin) for intravesical solution, an investigational therapy in development for primary chemoablation of low-grade, intermediate-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (LG-IR-NMIBC). In the study, UGN-102 was suitable to administer at home by a visiting nurse under the […]

February 16, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 16 Feb 2023

Genetic study reveals high variation in T-cell receptor genes

T-cells are central in the protection against infections and cancer. With the help of TCRs (T-cell receptors), cells recognize foreign invaders and tumor cells. “It was previously unknown how variable human TCR genes are,” said Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam, professor at the department of microbiology, tumor and cell biology at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and the […]

February 16, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 16 Feb 2023

Cytovation melanoma study under way

Cytovation ASA, a Norwegian clinical stage immune-oncology company focused on the development of CyPep-1, its first-in-class targeted tumor membrane immunotherapy, announces that the first patient has been dosed in its phase 2a study. The trial is investigating CyPep-1 monotherapy in patients with advanced melanoma refractory to checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs). The study is an expansion arm […]

February 16, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Feb 2023

Syena created to deliver first-in-class TCR-NK cell therapy

Replay, a genome writing company reprogramming biology by writing and delivering big DNA, and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, have launched Syena, a new oncology-focused product company pioneering T-cell receptor (TCR) natural killer (NK) cell therapies (TCR-NKs). Building on the intellectual property and technology from MD Anderson and Replay, Syena has the […]

February 14, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Partnership formed to develop miRNA to treat pancreatic cancer

What’s happening on Rare Disease Day?

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Cartherics to work on CAR-T cell therapy for ovarian cancer

Researchers discover how tumor cells become resistant to colorectal cancer chemotherapy

New promising targeted drug for a rare leukemia

The benefits – and challenges – of in-house CAR T-cell therapy

Report: China leads the way with phase 1 studies

Beyond Biotech podcast 34: eClinical Solutions, GPCR Therapeutics, Orbsen Therapeutics

Bladder cancer investigational therapy may be given at home

Genetic study reveals high variation in T-cell receptor genes

Cytovation melanoma study under way

Syena created to deliver first-in-class TCR-NK cell therapy

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