Trent Hills – How many five-year-olds can say they’ve thrown the ceremonial first pitch at a Blue Jay game the night the team’s ace pitcher Roy Halladay is honoured as Sportsperson of the Year, or shared the stage with international pop star John Mayer at a concert in Toronto? Isaac...
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TORONTO – As his favourite team and hockey idol played Game 7 on Monday night, five-year-old Deccan Gill was watching and maybe even picking up a thing or two to add to his own repertoire. Deccan, known has “Super Deccan” to his more than 3,000 Instagram followers, routinely posts videos of...
LEUVEN, Belgium, STRASBOURG, France, and PHILADELPHIA — Flamingo Therapeutics (“Flamingo”) today announced the appointment of Andrew E. Denker, MD, PhD., as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Denker is a physician-scientist with over two decades of biotech and pharmaceutical industry experience in clinical development across multiple modalities and therapeutic areas, including oncology...
LEUVEN, Belgium, STRASBOURG, France and PHILADELPHIA — Flamingo Therapeutics today announced that the first patient has been dosed in an Investigator-initiated Trial (IIT) evaluating the safety and efficacy of danvatirsen in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) who have relapsed or are refractory to frontline therapy. ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Flare Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company targeting transcription factors (TF) to discover precision medicines for cancer and other diseases, announced the presentation of data regarding the Phase 1 clinical trial design of FX-909, a highly potent and selective inhibitor of PPARG. “FlareTx has built a robust body...
FORT MYERS, Fla. — A best practices program developed at Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) has been shown to improve outcomes for adult patients prescribed selinexor for the treatment of relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). Results obtained from a one-year retrospective observational study using data collected by FCS’ Real-World...
Fuzhou, China – Flow immunophenotyping can help diagnose primary myelofibrosis (MF) and differentiate between essential thrombocythemia (ET) and polycythemia vera (PV), according to a new study published in the journal Clinical Cytometry. It is difficult to differentiate between the different types of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), such as ET, PV, and...
Margaret Flynn is still waiting for a lung transplant. Now, the Ladysmith resident has been on the current waiting list longer than anyone else. “It’s a rare match,” said Flynn, who has O negative blood as well as certain anti bodies in the blood, making her difficult to match to...
CARY, N.C. — Focal Medical, Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing a targeted therapeutic system to treat inoperable tumors and to deliver genomic medicines, today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to initiate a Phase 1b clinical trial of ACT-IOP-003,...
A 31-year-old man from Bratton has organised his first event as part of a five-year campaign to help a specialist school raise £2.4m for a hydro swimming pool and early learning centre. Radek Evans, 31, from Carpenters Lane,who has previously raised money for Hope Nature Centre in Southwick, and Dorothy...