Break Through Cancer has launched the PoweRD 2 Cure ALK+ Lung Cancer TeamLab, a collaboration among nine leading cancer research institutions, including Break Through Cancer’s five partner institutions: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, as well as newly engaged collaborators from Mass General Brigham, Boston Children’s Hospital, the University of Colorado Cancer Center and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Nuvalent, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on creating precisely targeted therapies for clinically proven kinase targets in cancer, announced positive topline pivotal data for neladalkib, an investigational ALK-selective inhibitor, in tyrosine kinase inhibitor pre-treated patients with advanced ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer from the global ALKOVE-1 phase I/II clinical trial.
