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News and Trends 20 Sep 2022

Collaboration to develop new glioblastoma combination therapy nets €1.06M

Dutch biotech CimCure B.V., French biotech company Covalab, Amsterdam UMC (The Netherlands) and the University of Zurich (Switzerland), have received a €1.06M ($1.08M) grant from EUREKA Eurostars. With a total budget of €2.24M ($2.28M), including investments from the partners, the project aims to develop a new treatment against glioblastoma. CimCure is the lead coordinator of […]

September 20, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 19 Sep 2022

Global consortium looks to develop breakthrough RNA-based anti-cancer immunotherapy

The Hadassah Cancer Research Institute (HCRI) at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel, is to lead CanceRNA, a global consortium aiming to apply RNA-based therapeutics to successfully unlock anti-cancer immune responses. While RNA-based therapies, namely mRNA vaccines, shone during the pandemic and saved millions of lives, they have yet to be successfully tested […]

September 19, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 19 Sep 2022

Tokyo scientists reveal possible new direction for getting rid of cancer cells

Scientists from Tokyo University of Science have revealed how autophagy regulates the elimination of transformed cells that can initiate cancer. The elimination is necessary to maintain tissue integrity. The scientists have found that intact autograph vacuoles are indispensable in mediating competitive elimination of the cancer cells. They also noted perturbation of autophagy prevents cell […]

September 19, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 19 Sep 2022

FDA boosts Antengene pancreatic cancer treatment

Biopharma company Antengene Corporation Limited says ATG-101, the company’s in-house developed novel PD-L1/4-1BB bispecific antibody, has been granted an orphan drug designation (ODD) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. The company said the ODD will help Antengene facilitate regulatory communication with the FDA, accelerate the clinical development […]

September 19, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 19 Sep 2022

Bugworks Research and Cytecare Cancer Hospitals to set up cancer research center

Bugworks Research Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, and Cytecare Cancer Hospitals are set to collaborate by setting up a dedicated research center. Suresh Ramu, co-founder & CEO, Cytecare Cancer Hospitals, said: “We are excited to partner with Bugworks Research, in this inspiring endeavor to discover novel treatments for different types of cancers. In 2016, […]

September 19, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 16 Sep 2022

Marengo advancing its lead TCR activator into clinic after FDA clearance

Marengo Therapeutics is advancing its lead TCR activator, STAR0602, into clinic following clearance of its investigational new drug (IND) application by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). STAR0602 is a bi-functional fusion antibody that deploys a mechanism of T cell activation that has demonstrated potent single agent activity in PD-1 refractory settings in preclinical […]

September 16, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 16 Sep 2022

Ghana first to benefit from Roche partnership with Jhpiego to improve cervical and breast cancer outcomes for women

Roche has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics (Jhpiego) to improve cervical and breast cancer outcomes in resource-constrained countries. Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer and the cause of the most cancer-related deaths in women. Similarly, cervical cancer is the fourth most […]

September 16, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Sep 2022

Pancreatic cancer study using dual-cell therapy yields positive results

Australian biotech company Noxopharm Limited has revealed encouraging new preclinical data from its long-term collaboration with UNSW Sydney. The results were reported this week at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Special Conference on Pancreatic Cancer in Boston. The study involves Noxopharm’s novel preclinical drug, which attacks pancreatic cancer in a different and innovative […]

September 14, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 14 Sep 2022

Rivaling the Golden Triangle at Bristol’s Science Creates hub

The Golden Triangle region hosts much of the U.K.’s biotech innovation. However, there are many hubs emerging across the nation, with Bristol’s Science Creates network being one thriving example. The U.K. hosts one of Europe’s leading biotech industries in terms of startup formation, scientific publications and investments. “The U.K. punches well above its weight with […]

September 14, 2022 - 9 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 14 Sep 2022

Tumors destroyed in five types of cancer by cell therapy from LIfT BioSciences

LIfT BioSciences announced today (September 14) that its cell therapy has shown tumor destruction across five different solid tumor types in tumoroid models. The N-LIfT cell therapy destroyed on average more than 90% of the tumoroid in a PDX organoid across five of the most challenging to treat solid tumor types. A PDX organoid is […]

September 14, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 13 Sep 2022

Results of phase 3 trial of injection for ovarian cancer imaging published

An injection for intraoperative imaging of folate receptor positive ovarian cancer can identify more of the disease than is unable to be identified conventionally. Biotech company On Target Laboratories announced that the results from its phase 3, 006 study of the Cytalux (pafolacianine) injection had been published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology yesterday (September […]

September 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 13 Sep 2022

New predictive biomarkers to be developed for larynx and hypopharynx carcinomas

A study to develop new, potential precision therapies in larynx and hypopharynx carcinomas has been announced today (September 13) by One Biosciences. The company was co-founded by Céline Vallot, Institut Curie and Home Biosciences, combining artificial intelligence (AI) and single-cell technologies to discover new therapeutic targets and develop novel precision medicines. The LARYCARE study, for […]

September 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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Collaboration to develop new glioblastoma combination therapy nets €1.06M

Global consortium looks to develop breakthrough RNA-based anti-cancer immunotherapy

Tokyo scientists reveal possible new direction for getting rid of cancer cells

FDA boosts Antengene pancreatic cancer treatment

Bugworks Research and Cytecare Cancer Hospitals to set up cancer research center

Marengo advancing its lead TCR activator into clinic after FDA clearance

Ghana first to benefit from Roche partnership with Jhpiego to improve cervical and breast cancer outcomes for women

Pancreatic cancer study using dual-cell therapy yields positive results

Rivaling the Golden Triangle at Bristol’s Science Creates hub

Tumors destroyed in five types of cancer by cell therapy from LIfT BioSciences

Results of phase 3 trial of injection for ovarian cancer imaging published

New predictive biomarkers to be developed for larynx and hypopharynx carcinomas

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