Sentences with phrase «to cancer»

The federal government and private organizations have tried to encourage sharing in recent years through initiatives like the Genomic Data Commons, a «unified data repository» intended to hasten cancer cures by making research public.

In the two years since Watson Health launched, it has struck partnerships with an impressive array of academic institutions, such as the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and prominent biopharma companies like Pfizer (pfe), Medtronic (mdt), and Johnson & Johnson (jnj).

As Mary Mycio has pointed out in Slate, however, it's impossible to know how many incidents of cancer were directly caused by Chernobyl.

Genmab's strategy is to use its growing royalty stream from Darzalex to invest in its next wave of medicines like cervical cancer drug tisotumab vedotin, which is being developed in a 50/50 partnership with Seattle Genetics.

Yet, while Shelley Hwang, chief of breast surgery at Duke Cancer Institute and vice chair of research at Duke University's Department of Surgery, agrees in principle, she also has concerns about all the new diagnostic potential that will come with precision medicine.

«We remain committed to advancing our IDO pathway inhibitor indoximod, which continues to generate exciting data in combination with anti-PD-1 agents, cancer vaccines, and chemotherapy in multiple cancer types including melanoma, prostate cancer, acute myeloid leukemia, and pancreatic cancer.»

«In the long term, we want to be able to send energy to and communicate with implants all over the body, to record data from a variety of organs in many different ways, maybe even report on the conditions of tumors or cancer therapies,» Maharbiz says.

Certain strains of the virus, which is sexually transmitted, are known to lead to the development of cervical cancer, as well as to cancers of the genitals, anus, and oropharynx (the part of the throat that lies just behind the mouth).

Freenome, a liquid biopsy startup that's looking to enter clinical trials, is working on technology that would be able to detect cancer in the body, including its location and type, using only blood samples.

Instead of being injected into the bloodstream and exposed to the rest of the body's tissue — with all the unpleasant side effects, as is the case with chemotherapy — these agents only target cancer cells.

• Surface Oncology, a Cambridge, Mass. - based cancer antibody developer, filed for an IPO of up to $ 75 million.

NewLink Genetics shares plunge as Genentech ditches cancer deal.

Merck shells out $ 300 million to partner Eisai in cancer drug deal.

Tough Mudder isn't curing cancer, but they do feel they're making the world a slightly better place by helping people lead more active lives and connect with each other.

Doctors in Edinburgh are developing a service to store testicular tissue from boys as young as one to help those at risk of infertility after cancer treatment.

The illegal ingredients found in these pills and powders include things like the banned controlled substance sibutramine, which the FDA slashed from the market nearly a decade ago and the chemical phenolphthalein, which some research has suggested may be linked to cancer.

Cancer drug company Juno Therapeutics, which took in $ 145 million from Amazon's Jeff Bezos and other investors in 2014 is but one example.

NewLink Genetics» stock price cratered more than 32 % in early Thursday trading after Roche arm Genentech told the company it would be returning the rights to NewLink's experimental cancer treatment navoximod.

More news on the GBM front: Tomorrow (Thursday) and Friday, the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, is hosting a glioblastoma immuno - oncology research summit in Los Angeles — bringing together top industry and academic scientists to share their research.

Dr. Anirban Maitra, an oncologist at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, pointed out on Twitter that Bornstein's admission about the dictated doctor note could amount to misconduct under New York law.

«I feel more rewarded about Flatiron, beyond the money potentially everyone could make over time, because of the fact that we're actually making a difference in cancer,» he said.

Drugmaker Merck reported a better - than - expected first - quarter profit on Tuesday, helped by a more than 150 percent rise in sales of cancer drug Keytruda.

His son Beau died of cancer in May.

The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced yesterday that it was presenting its prestigious 2017 Lasker - DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award to a pair of National Cancer Institute researchers, Douglas Lowy and John Schiller, who created a vaccine to prevent human papilloma virus, or HPV, from taking hold in the body.

TailsSpin owners and management along with owners and management of the Blue Buffalo Pet Cancer Awareness Foundation, with part of a donation to combat cancer in pets.

In 2005, Hamid Hashemi was fired from his own company and his wife was diagnosed with cancer.

A two - month 2010 study of nearly 300 cancer patients at the Mayo Clinic found that those given 1,000 or 2,000 milligrams of ginseng each day reported feeling more energized compared with those who took a placebo.

It was published posthumously, after Kalanithi died of lung cancer in 2015 at age 37.

He was diagnosed with terminal cancer the day after Thanksgiving in 2009.

The company dished out another $ 7 million this year for cancer research at the University of Toronto Mississauga campus.

Innovent and Ascentage will be following Shanghai Henlius Biotech, backed by Chinese conglomerate Fosun International, diabetes - focused drug developer Hua Medicine and U.S. - based cancer detection start - up Grail, among others, in eyeing Hong Kong listings.

That was followed by the takeover of Kairos Therapeutics, a Vancouver startup re-engineering human antibodies to fight cancer.

This time, the approval is for a type of blood cancer called large B - cell lymphoma.

Zymeworks will be putting its two leading drug candidates, both targeted at breast cancer, into clinical trials in the next few months.

Darzalex, however, has not yet reached its peak potential as the drug moves into earlier stages of the disease and is being tested on solid tumours like lung cancer.

Research on green tea consumption in people with other forms of cancer has been too limited to say whether it's beneficial.

The senator from Arizona returned Monday to Washington, DC, less than a week after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and less than two weeks after he had brain surgery.

And early this month he invested millions in a company that's creating a simple blood test to detect every form of cancer.

They include: heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, influenza and pneumonia, kidney disease, and suicide.

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.

Founded in 2011, Innovent has built a portfolio of 16 potential products for treating cancer, autoimmune disorders and other diseases, and seven of those are in clinical development.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday gave Swiss drug giant Novartis a second approval for its pioneering CAR - T cancer therapy, which uses patients» own immune cells (re-engineered outside the body and then replicated) to destroy blood cancers.

Perth - based law firm Jackson McDonald has honoured a former partner by funding an emerging cancer researcher as part of a record $ 4 million in grants announced by the Cancer Council WA today.

Grail's «liquid biopsy» shows promise in boosting cancer patients» chances of survival.

The problem with some intractable diseases, especially cancer, is that they inhabit the body's own cells, which the immune system is hard - wired to leave alone.

One of American's premier science prizes is celebrating research into the prevention of cancer.

On Tuesday, McCain returned to Washington shortly after doctors diagnosed him with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.

(There are good write - ups about this in the journals Science and Cell, and in Paul Goldberg's authoritative The Cancer Letter.)

On the ISS, Merck has been doing experiments on its next - gen cancer medicine Keytruda.

It's believed that these two strains of the virus cause 70 % of cervical cancers worldwide.