Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Clovis Oncology Inc. formed a clinical collaboration to evaluate the combination of BMS's Opdivo and Clovis Oncology's poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor Rubraca in pivotal phase III clinical trials in:
Loxo Oncology Inc. said the company has entered into an agreement to purchase the Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitor program from RedxPharma Plc. The lead candidate from this program is expected to enter clinical development in 2018. Under the terms of the agreement, Loxo Oncology has made a $40 million payment to Redx Pharma Plc for the full acquisition of the BTK discovery program, including lead candidate LOXO-305 (formerly RXC005). Loxo Oncology is not subject to milestone or royalty obligations.
Indivumed will partner with MedStar Health to help individualize anti-cancer medical therapies through biospecimen collection, preservation and analysis.
Ramon Parsons was named director of the Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai effective July 1.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology selected 23 members to receive the ASTRO Fellow designation.
Emmanuel Quien has joined the Fox Chase cancer Center Department of Hematology/Oncology.
Patients for whom there are no existing treatments watch with desperation as a potentially helpful new drug spends years working its way from a lab bench, through clinical trials, and finally to the FDA, where reviewers consider it for approval.
When former Vice President Joe Biden sought to convene and cajole cancer organizations into breaking down silos as part of the Cancer Moonshot, he frequently expressed frustration about reluctance on the part of cancer organizations to share data.
Norman “Ned” Sharpless, the scientist slated to be the next NCI director, is departing from his current job, that of director of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, sources said.
Project GENIE, a publicly available genomic data repository created and run by the American Association for Cancer Research, has amassed 18,804 de-identified records, and is on track to release another large dataset early this fall.
