Lu Rahman selects some of the year’s interesting and noteworthy advances in cancer research drug discovery and development. As always, a year within cancer drug discovery and development brings with it significant breakthroughs, and 2023 has been no exception. Figures from the Amercian Cancer… Read More
DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Ron Alfa, CEO & Co-founder at NOETIK, about the company’s mission to utilise artificial intelligence (AI) and spatial biology to develop better immunotherapies for cancer patients. Reece A: What are some of the human limitations to current drug discovery research for immunotherapies?… Read More
Jenny Hogstrom-Stakem, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, was recently awarded the 2023 AACR-AstraZeneca Breast Cancer Research Fellowship. Here she shares her career highlights and advice with DDW’s Diana Spencer. DS: Can you tell us what you do and what you’re working on at the moment? JHS:… Read More
DDW recently hosted an online event, sponsored by Taconic Biosciences, which outlined areas of advancement and opportunity in the cancer research market. Megan Thomas summarises the key points examined by the participating experts. New drug discovery and development concepts The event started with a panel discussion… Read More
News round-up for 29 January – 2 February by DDW Digital Content Editor Diana Spencer. Sunday 4 February is World Cancer Day, an international awareness day led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), so the round-up this week will focus on oncology, including the UK approval of… Read More
The Winter issue of Drug Discovery World (DDW) is out now and asks whether AI can deliver better immunotherapies for cancer and includes expert predictions on what to expect from the sector in 2024, alongside a supplement looking at SLAS2024 and an exclusive guide exploring therapeutic antibodies. Read More
The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates. In the same week that it was revealed that breast cancer was the most… Read More
News round-up for 22-26 January by DDW Digital Content Editor Diana Spencer. In the same week that it was revealed that breast cancer was the most studied disease area in 2023 for the third year running, there were a number of promising developments in the treatment of colorectal,… Read More
Biomica has completed enrolment in its Phase I trial evaluating the safety and tolerability of its microbiome-based immuno-oncology drug, BMC128. Initiated in July 2022, the Phase I trial was designed to evaluate BMC128 in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) immunotherapy, in patients with either non-small… Read More
The Phase IIa ACCENT trial has launched to explore the activity of focal adhesion kinase (FAK) inhibitor narmafotinib in combination with standard-of-care chemotherapy in advanced pancreatic cancer patients. In November 2023, Amplia Therapeutics announced completion of the Phase Ib stage of the ACCENT trial where ascending… Read More
Findings from Cardiff Oncology’s Phase Ib portion of the Phase Ib/II study for the second-line treatment of patients with KRAS-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) have been published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. The publication underscores the safety… Read More
Breast cancer was the most studied disease in 2023 for the third consecutive year, followed by solid tumours, stroke, Covid-19 and prostate cancer. The analysis of 65,749 recruiting clinical trials was conducted by data analytics company Phesi, as part of an annual global analysis of clinical… Read More
BPGbio, an AI-powered biopharma that focuses on oncology, neurology, and rare diseases, has announced new data from a Phase IIa clinical trial of its lead candidate, BPM31510, in patients with advanced pancreatic cancers at the annual ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, being held 18-20 January 2024, in San Francisco. Read More
Researchers in the US have discovered that a type of immune cell in the human body known to be important for allergy and other immune responses can also attack cancer. Furthermore, these cells, called human type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s), can be expanded outside of… Read More
Cancer Research Horizon’s Innovation Summit 2023 took place on 21 November 2023 at the Royal Society of Medicine, and included talks from researchers translating their research, as well as networking with members of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. DDW’s Megan Thomas spoke to a range of attendees. Trends… Read More
DDW’s Diana Spencer takes a look at the breaking news stories that were most popular with DDW readers over the last year. Representing a dominant field of drug discovery, it isn’t surprising that breakthroughs in cancer research were popular with DDW readers in 2023, particularly strategies… Read More
