Sentences with phrase «cancer immunotherapy treatments»

U.S. drug giant Merck is paying $ 300 million in a deal possibly worth more than $ 5 billion to partner Eisai in an effort to boost its star cancer immunotherapy treatment Keytruda, which could match up well in a combination with Eisai's Lenvima.

Speaking of checkpoint inhibitor drugs... Merck's star cancer immunotherapy treatment Keytruda is facing some troubling clinical trial incidents which have now compelled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to halt three studies of the drug in multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer, after a number of patient deaths.

The FDA has approved a four - week dosing schedule for Bristol - Myers Squibb's cancer immunotherapy treatment Opdivo, doubling the current two - week schedule for a variety of cancers.

Add biotech giant Celgene to the roster of companies chasing a new class of cancer immunotherapy treatments called «checkpoint inhibitors.»

«Insights derived from these data will be critical to improving the effectiveness of current cancer immunotherapy treatments and developing new immune - based treatment strategies,» said Justin Guinney, Ph.D., principal investigator, director of computational oncology and bioinformatics at Sage Bionetworks.

Biomedical researchers have developed a technique that uses a patch embedded with microneedles — like the patch pictured here — to deliver cancer immunotherapy treatment directly to the site of melanoma skin cancer.

Biomedical engineering researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a technique that uses a patch embedded with microneedles to deliver cancer immunotherapy treatment directly to the site of melanoma skin cancer.

This method has potential to be used as a future cancer immunotherapy treatment as well as providing more insight into how immune cells are activated to find and kill cancer cells.

I wish to extend a heartfelt thank you to all our supporters, whose generosity helps us bring lifesaving cancer immunotherapy treatments to patients faster.

Cancer Research Institute to Honor Amgen for Advancing Cancer Immunotherapy Treatments and Patient Education

«Oncolytic viruses are the next wave of promising cancer immunotherapy treatments,» says Dr. Steven Powell, a medical oncologist with the Sanford Cancer Center in Sioux Falls, S.D., who collaborated with Vyriad on the development of this clinical trial.

Bristol - Myers» cancer immunotherapy treatment Opdivo is a recent shining star in the company's portfolio and has generally been trouncing Merck's rival therapy Keytruda in sales.

That way, it might be possible to reduce some of the side effects that current cancer immunotherapy treatments have.

The Cancer Research Institute (CRI) and the Focused Ultrasound Foundation (FUSF) established a partnership in 2017 with the goal of advancing the development of new focused ultrasound (FUS) and cancer immunotherapy treatments.