THE ONCOLOGY RESEARCH INFORMATION EXCHANGE NETWORK (ORIEN) and HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology announced a new collaboration to advance cancer research and care called The ORIEN Avatar Research Program. Under the agreement, HudsonAlpha will provide DNA sequences for 20,000 patient samples, tumor and non-tumor, by 2019 to identify the genetic disturbances and mutations of each patient’s...
Richard Pazdur, founding director of FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence and long-time FDA visionary, has accepted the top job at FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research following George F. Tidmarsh’s dramatic ouster from the position.Â
