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.
In the absence of the federal funding, cancer research will be leaning on private funders. But few private funders have the freedom to ask fundamental questions—questions whose answers may not have an immediate clinical impact but can dramatically advance scientific knowledge.
