Geron Corp. announced that results from IMbark, a phase II clinical trial of imetelstat treatment in Intermediate-II or High-risk myelofibrosis patients who are relapsed or refractory to a Janus Kinase inhibitor, were presented at ASH.
AstraZeneca and Acerta Pharma, its hematology research and development center of excellence, have presented new, long-term follow-up results for Calquence (acalabrutinib) in patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma and updated results of an ongoing clinical trial assessing acalabrutinib monotherapy in treatment-naïve patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia at ASH.
A new combination of three drugs that harness the body's immune system is safe and effective, destroying most cancer cells in 95 percent of patients with recurrent Hodgkin lymphoma, according to the results of an early-phase study.
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc., a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, reported positive top-line results from the phase IIb SADAL (Selinexor Against Diffuse Aggressive Lymphoma) study evaluating selinexor, the company's first-in-class, oral Selective Inhibitor of Nuclear Export compound, in patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma after at least two prior multi-agent therapies and who are ineligible for transplantation, including high dose chemotherapy with stem cell rescue.
Celgene Corp. announced initial data from the dose-escalation part of an ongoing, open-label multicenter phase 1/2 study of investigational lisocabtagene maraleucel (liso-cel; JCAR017) in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma, including patients with cytogenetic features of high-risk disease, who were previously treated with ibrutinib.
Wafik El-Deiry was named associate dean for Oncologic Sciences at Brown University and head of the Brown-Lifespan Joint Program in Cancer Biology.
The Emory Proton Therapy Center, the first and only facility of its kind in the state of Georgia, officially opened earlier this week.
Richard Markow will retire from his position as director of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium on Feb. 1. The SABCS’s 41st annual symposium is currently underway. Markow has served as director for 18 years, growing it to become one of the largest breast cancer conferences in the world. In addition to being the director... […]
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a $30 million gift from O'Neal Industries Inc., a family-owned global business based in Birmingham.
NCI is cutting the budgets of divisions, offices, and centers within the institute by 5 percent to maintain funding for its Research Project Grant pool, which funds a broad range of basic research, as well as clinical trials and health services research.
