With the advent of targeted therapies, cancer drugs have made strides in safety as well as efficacy. Still, because of the life threatening nature of the illness, safety is less of a focus in cancer drugs than other therapy types.
Twenty years after the first, exclusively white human genomes were fully sequenced, science finds itself in the same position as the rest of society: with the uncomfortable realization that old inequalities are often morphing, rather than disappearing. Vocal racists – scientists of the stripe of a James Watson – are by no means a thing of the past. But they are only the tip of the iceberg.
Twenty years after the first, exclusively white human genomes were fully sequenced, science finds itself in the same position as the rest of society: with the uncomfortable realization that old inequalities are often morphing, rather than disappearing.
Heidelberg, Germany-based Affimed NV described its progress at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting and discussed the research in a conference call on 2020 financial results, adding fuel to investor enthusiasm for the firm’s natural killer (NK) cell approach, although the update did not come without some confusion.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2021, including: Adagene, Antengene, Ascentage, Beigene, Bluebird, Celcuity, Celldex, Eli Lilly, Geneleap, Greenwich, Heat, Immunocore, Immunogen, Innovent, Psioxus, Replimune, Sotio, Sound, Spectrum, SQZ, Sumitomo, Synthekine, Tachyon, Taiho, Tallac, TCR2, Theratechnologies, Treovir, Trisalus, Ultimovacs, Vincerx, Xencor, Y-mabs, Zentalis, Zymeworks.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2021, including: BMS, Kronos, Kymera, Medicenna, Medigene, Mei, Mersana, Mirati, Molecular Partners, Molecular Templates, Morphic, Nextcure, Nuvalent, Oasmia, Oncolytics, Oncomyx, Oncurious, Oncternal, Oric, Pharmabcine, Phio, Pieris, PMV, Puretech, Schrodinger, Seneca.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2021, including: Achilles, Advaxis, Affimed, Agenus, Alpine, Amphivena, Amunix, Arch, Arcus, Bayer, Beigene, Bio-Path, Black Diamond, Briacell, C4, Cardiff Oncology, Checkmate, Clovis, Codiak, Crispr, Elevation, Eli Lilly, Essa, F-star, Fusion, Gennao, Genprex, Glycomimetics, Gracell, GT, Hookipa, Hummingbird, Mirati, Instil, Intra-Cellular, Immune-Onc, Immunogen, Iteos, Jubilant, Kezar, Kineta, Kintara.
Cachexia, Teresa Zimmers told the audience at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), is "woefully understudied for the outsized impact it has on cancer patients." The condition, which is currently defined as weight loss and muscle wasting, is the direct cause of death in an estimated 25% to 30% of cancer patients. But it is the main subject of only 0.1% of research papers and 0.2% of clinical trials.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2021, including: Affimed, Atyr, Chemocentryx, Greenwich, Humanigen, Imcheck, In8bio, Iovance, Mina, Nimbus, Onxeo, Sana, Sanofi, Surface Oncology, Transgene, Turning Point.
In science there are often too many choices to make. Nammi Therapeutics Inc.’s CEO, David Stover, told BioWorld that he makes narrowing therapeutic options a core company principle. The redundancy of immune regulatory pathways in cancer treatments is a case in point.