A foundation established by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sean Parker—founder of Napster and first president of Facebook—has committed $250 million to research in cancer immunotherapy.
The Oncology Research Information Exchange Network and M2Gen formed a bioinformatics collaboration with Celgene Corp.
FDA granted permission to an Irish company to market the “PneumoLiner,” a first-of-its-kind containment system indicated for isolating and containing uterine tissue during a minimally invasive hysterectomy or myomectomy. The agency announced its action April 7.
NCI announced a panel of advisors to inform the scientific direction and goals of Vice President Joe Biden's National Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
At a meeting of the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors March 29, NCI officials had good news to report:
The University of Pennsylvania and Genisphere LLC formed a collaborative research agreement to study targeted nanotherapeutics. The collaboration between Genisphere, provider of the 3DNA drug delivery platform, and UPenn’s Theresa Busch, will utilize a breast cancer model to study photodynamic therapy. Photosensitizing drugs are administered to patients prior to surgery, and then activated by visible […]
FDA approved a hepatitis C virus quantitative RNA test to be used as an aid in the diagnosis of HCV infection for certain patient populations.
MAHA HUSSAIN will join the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University as associate director for clinical sciences research, effective Sept. 1.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network launched its value tool, NCCN Evidence Blocks, which will be presented at its annual conference, March 31 to April 2.
I first heard something about a red sofa that cost an impressive amount of money soon after I started to cover the controversy at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
