Boehringer Ingelheim announced a new multi-year collaboration with Vanderbilt University, complementing an already existing collaboration by focusing on the research and development of small molecule compounds targeting the protein SOS (Son Of Sevenless).
For the sixth year in a row, iKnowMed electronic health record has been named the top-ranked EHR platform for oncologists and hematologists by Black Book Research, an industry-leading source for polling, surveys and market research.
Cancer Treatment Centers of America, in collaboration with NantHealth and Allscripts, is implementing a custom technical solution that, for the first time, enables eviti, a NantHealth clinical decision support solution, access to clinical workflows in the Allscripts Sunrise electronic health record.
Blackfynn and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia said they have expanded their relationship. Under the expanded relationship, Blackfynn's Data Platform will be used by CHOP and the Children's Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium to bring together complex non-identifiable patient data for collaboration and analysis, thereby accelerating translational discovery toward treatments for brain cancer in children.
FDA's approval process for drugs is “slow and cumbersome,” President Donald Trump said in his first address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 28.
MD Anderson Cancer Center reduced its year-to-date operating loss to $77.3 million in January, the fifth month of the fiscal year.
Steve Hahn didn't apply for the job of Chief Operating Officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center. In fact, there was no COO job to apply to, and conversations that preceded the announcement of his new role took less than a week.
Due to the current Continuing Resolution, the Fiscal Year 2017 Defense Appropriations bill has not been passed.
FDA approved lenalidomide (Revlimid) as maintenance therapy for patients with multiple myeloma following autologous stem cell transplant.
Novartis said FDA has accepted the company's supplemental New Drug Application for filing, and granted Priority Review for the expanded use of Zykadia (ceritinib) as a first-line treatment for patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer whose tumors are anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive as detected by an FDA-approved test.
