Phylogica Ltd. said Genentech has extended its exclusivity period for the research collaboration and license agreement to discover novel antibiotics utilizing Phylogica’s Phylomer drug discovery platform, including its proprietary cell penetrating peptide discovery technology.
A member of the Roche Group, Phylogica is a public Australian drug discovery company. Genentech is a member of the Roche Group.
By law, the Food and Drug Administration is required to determine whether a drug, device, biologic, or medical device is “safe and effective.” But the FDA determination does not control whether the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will pay for it. To satisfy CMS, medical products and services must be “reasonable and necessary,” meaning...
As a radiation oncologist, I am struck by how often the decisive variable in lung cancer is not the sophistication of our therapy, but the timing of our encounter with the disease. The American Cancer Society projects 618,120 cancer deaths in the United States in 2025, with lung cancer remaining as the single largest contributor,...
