Sentences with phrase «multiple immunotherapy trials»
Dr. Sharma is the principal investigator of multiple immunotherapy trials and performs extensive laboratory studies on patients» samples to gain insights regarding mechanisms and pathways involved in antitumor responses.
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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.
Wherry, together with his colleagues in the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Penn, are involved in multiple checkpoint - related trials, in melanoma, lung cancer, renal cell carcinoma, and others, including combining checkpoint blockade with radiation.
This page features information on multiple myeloma and immunotherapy clinical trials for multiple myeloma patients, and highlights the Cancer Research Institute's role in working to bring effective immune - based cancer treatments to people with multiple myeloma.
There are now multiple immunotherapies targeting clearance of alpha - synuclein from the brain in early - stage clinical trials, and multiple trials underway or in the works on the next generation of cell replacement therapies for dopaminergic neurons, including the TRANSEURO trial; the Summit4StemCell initiative, put together by Jeanne Loring — a researcher at The Scripps Research Institute who is exceptionally engaged with turning her research into therapies; a Japanese trial to be run by Jun Takahashi of Kyoto University in Japan (cf. here and here); and a trial centered at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center headed by cell biologist Lorenz Studer.
«A trial of this magnitude has many moving parts: multiple contracts and co-funders, a four - drug IND, a major industry partner, a biotech firm, and six university hospitals,» said Ramy Ibrahim, M.D., vice president of clinical development at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.
In addition, a growing number of immunotherapy clinical trials are in place to test this groundbreaking approach on other cancers like lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and for solid tumors, through trials in glioblastoma, mesothelioma, and ovarian and pancreatic cancer.