HOUSTON, Texas and MIAMI, Florida ― The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Summit Therapeutics, Inc. today announced a strategic five-year collaboration agreement for the purpose of accelerating the development of ivonescimab. Leveraging MD Anderson’s clinical infrastructure and research expertise together with Summit’s innovative, investigational, potential first-in-class PD-1/VEGF...
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HOUSTON ― The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Research Highlights showcases the latest breakthroughs in cancer care, research and prevention. These advances are made possible through seamless collaboration between MD Anderson’s world-leading clinicians and scientists, bringing discoveries from the lab to the clinic and back. Recent developments at...
SAN DIEGO, CA ― The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Research Highlights showcases the latest breakthroughs in cancer care, research and prevention. These advances are made possible through seamless collaboration between MD Anderson’s world-leading clinicians and scientists, bringing discoveries from the lab to the clinic and back. This...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Three early-phase clinical studies presented by researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2024 show promising initial data for patients with lymphoma, gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancers, and specific molecularly selected tumors. The...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Bionano Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNGO) today announced the publication of a study in Cancers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center showing how optical genome mapping (OGM) can address key limitations of targeted RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) panels in detecting therapeutically-relevant gene rearrangements in acute leukemias. This peer-reviewed...
Phase I trial demonstrates lasting responses and encouraging safety profile in two aggressive thyroid cancer subtypes, suggesting further progress for CAR T cell therapy in solid tumors One patient experienced a complete response, and one patient had a partial response This type of cancer has limited treatment options, and...
BOSTON, Mass. and KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Medera Inc. (“Medera”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on targeting cardiovascular diseases by developing next-generation therapeutics, and its clinical development division Sardocor, together with the University of Kansas Medical Center, today announced the successful treatment of the first patient in the MUSIC-DMD Phase...
TORONTO, Canada and HOUSTON, TX — Medicenna Therapeutics Corp., a clinical-stage immunotherapy company focused on the development of Superkines, today announced initiation of enrollment in the combination arm of the Phase 1/2 ABILITY (ABeta-only IL-2 ImmunoTherapY) study evaluating MDNA11, a long-acting, “beta-enhanced not-alpha” interleukin-2 (IL-2) super-agonist, with Merck’s pembrolizumab (KEYTRUDA®)....
I blog, I tweet and I use Facebook. And as I recently told a medical colleague, social media has been an enormously useful tool in my work. “I can barely keep up with e-mail,” he snorted back. “I’m not about to open up that black box.” About 15 years ago,...
LA JOLLA, Calif. — MediciNova, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company traded on the NASDAQ Global Market (NASDAQ:MNOV) and the Standard Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Code Number: 4875), today announced that as of the end of January 2026, 12 sites in the US are activated and 100 patients have been...