Zai Lab Limited, a Shanghai-based biopharmaceutical company, announced the Hong Kong Department of Health has approved Zejula (niraparib), an oral, once-daily poly polymerase inhibitor in Hong Kong for adult patients with platinum-sensitive relapsed high grade serous epithelial ovarian cancer who are in a complete response or partial response to platinum-based chemotherapy.
Richard M. Simon, NCI biostatistician who likely set a record for the number of first-authored papers, and whose interests included country music, horseback riding and ballroom dancing, died May 9, at age 80. Simon joined NCI in 1974.
