FDA granted an Orphan Drug Designation to VAL-083 for the treatment of medulloblastoma. The investigational drug candidate, developed by DelMar Pharmaceuticals Inc., previously received an orphan designation for glioblastoma in the U.S. and in Europe. VAL-083 is a first-in-class chemotherapeutic. In more than 40 phase I and II clinical studies sponsored by the NCI, VAL-083...
Over the past seven years, as Steven K. Libutti was designing the 12-story, $900-plus million cancer hospital in New Brunswick, NJ, he often thought of the functionality of the building that inspired it: Building 10, the NIH Clinical Center.
