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Coronado Biosciences Appoints Karin Hehenberger, M.D., Ph.D. as Senior Vice President of Scientific Affairs
News Dec 22, 2011Dr. Hehenberger’s responsibilities will initially be focused on broadening the scope of proof of concept trials in various autoimmune diseases with Coronado’s lead product CNDO-201.
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Vermillion Completes the Acquisition of Correlogic Systems' Ovarian Cancer Diagnostics Business for $435,000
News Dec 22, 2011The assets include more than 1,000 prospectively collected diagnostic samples from ovarian tumor studies, three biomarker-related pending U.S. patents, proprietary software and other intellectual property.
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NIH Scientists Find a Potential New Avenue for Cancer Therapies
News Dec 20, 2011NIH publishes the data online in the Dec. 19 issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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Scientists Join Stand Up to Cancer and Melanoma Research Alliance Dream Team
News Dec 19, 2011Three Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) and Michigan State University scientists join other researchers nationwide, tasked with a $6 million project to find therapies for patients with a deadly form of melanoma that has few treatment options.
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New Patent Grant for GeneICE & VAL101 Update
News Dec 15, 2011ValiRx Plc is pleased to announce that GeneICE (or “Gene inactivation by chromatin engineering”), its proprietary gene-silencing technology, has recently received patent approval by the Canadian patent office.
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Threshold Pharmaceuticals Announces Promising Phase 1 Clinical Trial Results
News Dec 15, 2011The company announced clinical trial results of the Phase 1 study of TH-302 in patients with advanced leukemias conducted at MD Anderson's Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
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Celgene Announce Final Phase II Data Evaluating REVLIMID® and Rituximab
News Dec 14, 2011The study reported overall response rate of 66% in patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia, with 12% of patients achieving complete response. After a median follow-up of 31 months, overall survival Was 75%.
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Meta-Analysis Confirms Link Between Epigenetic Changes and Prostate Cancer
News Dec 14, 2011Detection of epigenetic changes could provide better diagnosis and disease management as MDxHealth’s Prostate ConfirmMDxTM test helps identify men with suspected prostate cancer, thus avoiding unnecessary repeat biopsies.
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Endocyte Announces Results of Supplemental Analyses of PRECEDENT Trial
News Dec 13, 2011Analyses confirm greatest benefit in FR(++) population.
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RSNA Research Scholar Grant Update: Gene Expression Profiling in Cancer Patients
News Dec 13, 2011Michael S. Gee, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Radiology, was the 2010 recipient of the two-year Carestream Health/RSNA Research Scholar Grant Award for his work on the characterisation of cancer cells.
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