For that checklist, we found a whole lot of similarities between contributors, including a preponderance of groups in a number of scorching sectors, many famous founders and a lot of melanoma drug developers. (ioebusiness.com)
They further explored combining two drugs, the FDA - approved melanoma drug trametinib and fluvastatin, a common cholesterol - lowering drug. (sciencedaily.com)
The study was inspired in part by the complex effects of a new melanoma drug developed by the biotech companies Plexxikon and Roche that blocks a protein made by a mutated gene called BRAF. (sciencemag.org)