GAMIDA CELL said FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to the company’s lead product candidate, NiCord, in development as a novel graft modality for bone marrow transplantation in patients with high risk hematological malignancies. The international, multi-center phase III registration study of NiCord is planned to begin before the end of the year, the company...
As NIH and NCI funding is negotiated in Congress, Paul W. Thurman felt compelled to crunch some numbers. He compared the U.S.’s cumulative funding for NCI to the funding slated for ICE—the latter of which vastly outweighs the former—and asked whether the funding priorities of the federal government are properly representing the nation’s mortality.
