Last year, Fox Chase Cancer Center stood poised to make history by becoming the first NCI-designated cancer center to be sold on open market.
Three companies withdraw cancer indications for PD-1/PD-L1 drugs in FDA’s “industry-wide evaluation”
Over the past three months, three pharmaceutical companies voluntarily withdrew three cancer indications for drugs that had previously received accelerated approvals from FDA, but ultimately failed to meet agreed-upon endpoints in confirmatory trials required for regular approvals.
Once an expensive cancer drug is discarded, it’s not worth it for drug developers, health care providers, and payers to recoup its cost, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said in a congressionally mandated report.
Hans Clevers will receive the the Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research at the 2021 virtual AACR annual meeting.
Sarah Hawley was named associate director for training, education and career development at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center.
Lilli Petruzzelli was named senior vice president of early clinical development for Genentech’s Research and Early Development organization (gRED).
Brian Faith was named vice president of communications at City of Hope, effective March 1.
The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy has provided its class of six early career researchers with a total of almost $3 million for cancer research.
Researchers from Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University aim to increase prostate cancer in African American men with a $2.75 million, three-year grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation.
The FY21 Defense Appropriations Act is anticipated to provide funding to the Department of Defense Kidney Cancer Research Program to support kidney cancer research. The KCRP is providing the information in this pre-announcement to allow investigators time to plan and develop ideas for submission to the anticipated FY21 funding opportunities. The FY21 KCRP program announcements... […]
