Vice President Joe Biden's National Cancer Moonshot Initiative has touched off an unprecedented national and international dialogue about cancer.
NCI is working to provide five to ten recommendations for Vice President Joe Biden's cancer moonshot program, officials said at a recent advisory committee meeting.
THE AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION honored its 2016 award recipients during its 111th Annual Meeting in San Diego. William Marston Linehan received the Ramon Guiteras Award for his contributions to the art and science of urology, most notably in the identification of genes associated with different types of kidney cancers and developing new strategies for their […]
BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL chose not to contest the plaintiffs' offers of proof in two medical malpractice lawsuits against the Boston hospital at a Massachusetts tribunal May 13.
PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA’s member companies invested an estimated $58.8 billion in research and development in 2015, up 10.3 percent from 2014, based on the 2016 PhRMA annual member survey published in the 2016 Biopharmaceutical Research Industry Profile. According to PhRMA, the biopharmaceutical industry is the most research-intensive sector of the U.S. economy, […]
The UCLA Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Leica Biosystems will collaborate in digital pathology. Product testing will be conducted with UCLA to validate digital pathology in a high-volume setting. This joint effort builds upon the existing relationship between UCLA and Leica Biosystems that was established in 2011. The pathology team at UCLA will […]
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY joined the TriNetX network for clinical trial design and to support Jefferson’s clinical research programs. Pharmaceutical researchers will be able to access Jefferson’s de-identified clinical data through TriNetX’s network of healthcare institutions to support clinical study and protocol design, site selection, and patient recruitment across a range of therapeutic areas and development […]
ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL, with Univision Local Media, raised $4 million during this year’s Promesa y Esperanza (Promise and Hope) radio event held in 17 media markets in the U.S. and Puerto Rico April 7-8. St. Jude content included more than 30 hours of radio programming and featured several patient family stories, broadcasted coast […]
BIODELIVERY SCIENCES INTERNATIONAL Inc. and Collegium Pharmaceutical Inc. signed a licensing agreement in which BDSI grants exclusive rights to develop and commercialize Onsolis (fentanyl buccal soluble film) in the U.S. to Collegium. Onsolis is an opioid agonist indicated for the management of breakthrough pain in cancer patients 18 years of age and older who are […]
CITY OF HOPE received a $2.3 million R01 research project grant from NCI to fund studies associated with a phase I/II clinical trial in relapsed/refractory adult acute myeloid leukemia. The research team will be led by Steven Rosen, City of Hope’s provost and chief scientific officer. The phase II clinical trial will test 8-chloro-adenosine in […]
