FDA approved Opdivo (nivolumab) injection for the treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma and disease progression following Yervoy (ipilimumab) and, if BRAF V600 mutation positive, a BRAF inhibitor.
SHARMILA MAKHIJA was named professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System, effective April 1.
DONALD “SKIP” TRUMP was named the first CEO and executive director of the newly created Inova Cancer Care and Research Institute, part of the Inova Health System.
New Perspective on Nevins and Potti
Nevins Acknowledges Gravity of the Situation
Repeating the Third Year?
Duke University would have avoided embarrassment, a misconduct investigation and a lawsuit, had its top administrators paid closer attention to a thoughtful report by a medical student who saw problems in the lab of the disgraced scientist Anil Potti.
Polaris Group's lead product candidate, ADI-PEG 20 (pegylated arginine deiminase), received orphan drug designations for the treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma in the U.S. and the European Union.
Amgen and Kite Pharma entered into a strategic research collaboration and license agreement to develop and commercialize novel Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell immunotherapies based on Kite's engineered autologous cell therapy platform and Amgen's array of cancer targets.
Taiho Oncology Inc., a subsidiary of Taiho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., completed its rolling New Drug Application submission to FDA for TAS-102 (trifluridine and tipiracil hydrochloride). TAS-102 is an oral combination anticancer drug under investigation for the treatment of refractory metastatic colorectal cancer.