Oncology

Gaining Insights Into Disease Biology for Target Identification and Validation Sponsored by Agilent Dysfunctional energy metabolism is associated with many different diseases. As such, metabolic modulation is a promising avenue for novel targets in cancer, immunology, and neurological disease. Learn how live-cell metabolic measurements generate critical information about pathways and nutrients used to produce ATP […]

The Opencorona consortium has awarded €3 million funding by Horizon 2020 to support emergency research and development against the COVID-19 outbreak. Cobra Biologics (Cobra), an international CDMO for biologics and pharmaceuticals, and the Karolinska Institutet (KI), one of the world’s leading medical universities, announced on March 30, they have been awarded €3 million emergency funding […]

The financing will accelerate the development of first-in-class therapies in autoimmune disease and immuno-oncology. Pathios Therapeutics Limited (“Pathios”), an innovative biotech company focused on the development of first-in-class therapies for autoimmune diseases and cancer, today announced a US$8.8M Series A financing round with leading international healthcare investors Canaan and Australia’s Medical Research Commercialisation Fund managed […]

Grey Wolf Therapeutics completes £2.5 million ($3.3 million) Series A2 financing to accelerate development of therapies targeting ERAP2. Grey Wolf targets ERAP antigen presentation pathways with the aim of ‘illuminating’ non-responsive tumors for attack and destruction by the immune system. Grey Wolf Therapeutics, a drug discovery biotechnology company focused on developing first-in-class therapies for immuno-oncology […]

Collaborative Cancer Research UK-funded studies from University of Oxford researchers have uncovered a new mechanism by which cancer cells adapt to the stresses they encounter as they grow and respond to therapies. This mechanism involves cells releasing small vesicles, known as exosomes. These contain complex mixtures of proteins, RNAs and other molecules, which can re-programme […]

This a new clinical development partnership to progress a therapeutic DNA vaccine, TGL-100, into an early phase clinical trial targeting head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) HNSCC is the UK’s eighth most common cancer, but treatment options are limited and around 4,000 of those affected in the UK die each year. Whilst existing immunotherapies […]

TrueBinding, a biopharmaceutical company, has signed a set of commercial licenses for Horizon Discovery’s CHOSOURCE platform. TrueBinding will use the cGMP-compliant platform for the development and commercialisation of multiple biotherapeutic products for applications in immuno-oncology and other disease areas with great unmet medical need. Horizon’s CHOSOURCE platform includes a gene-edited Glutamine Synthetase (GS) knockout Chinese […]

This will explore clinical trials with IMM-101, in combination with other treatments, in difficult to treat cancers, with a particular focus on epithelial cancers such as pancreatic cancer and sarcoma. Immodulon, an immuno-oncology company, and the Champalimaud Foundation, a private, non-profit, research organisation in Lisbon, Portugal, have announced research intended to examine the potential use […]

Now being held virtually, the upcoming ASCO20 Virtual Education Program, will provide 90 sessions covering topics in cancer education, updates in cancer treatment, professional development, COVID-19, and more. ASCO 2020 Virtual Education Program Now being held virtually, the upcoming ASCO20 Virtual Education Program, will provide 90 sessions covering topics in cancer education, updates in cancer […]

30 July 2020 Image: Sven Mieke Genes linked to ageing that could help explain why some people age at different rates to others have been identified by scientists. The international study using genetic data from more than a million people suggests that maintaining healthy levels of iron in the blood could be a key to […]