The SEC said today that Clovis Oncology (NSDQ:CLVS), its CEO and former CFO will pay more than $20 million to settle charges that the company misled investors about its experimental lung cancer drug. The SEC alleged that beginning in July 2015 and over the course of a four-month period, CEO Patrick Mahaffy and his team […]
Novocure inks Chinese collaborative deal with Zai Lab
Novocure (NSDQ:NVCR) said today it inked a $15 million licensing agreement with Shanghai-based biopharma company Zai Lab to offer its Optune technology on the Chinese market and accelerate clinical trial enrollment in the region. The Optune device delivers low-intensity, intermediate frequency, alternating electric fields, called “Tumor Treating Fields,” to inhibit cancer cell replication. Through the agreement, Novocure granted […]
Novocure touts combined TTF, chemotherapy mesothelioma study data
Novocure (NSDQ:NVCR) today released results from the Stellar phase 2 registration trial exploring the use of its Tumor Treating Fields and standard of care chemotherapy to chemotherapy alone in treating mesothelioma, touting a significant extension in median overall survival. Patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma who received TTF treatment alongside pemetrexed and cisplatin or carboplatin experienced a […]
Cook, AcuityBio ink deal for lung cancer drug technology
Cook Biotech will collaborate with drug-delivery maker AcuityBio on Acuity’s lead lung cancer product, the companies said today. Acuity’s ABC103 will use Cook Biotech’s proprietary extracellular matrix (ECM) technology. ABC103 is a platform technology designed for localized, sustained drug delivery to prevent post-surgical lung cancer recurrence. It combines approved/ cleared surgical staple-line buttress, drug-eluting polymers and […]
J&J’s Janssen wins FDA nod for first non-chemo treatment for rare blood cancer
Johnson & Johnson‘s (NYSE:JNJ) Janssen division said today that it won new FDA approval for its Imbruvica, clearing it for use in treating the rare blood cancer Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia in combination with ritumixab. The approval expands the label for Imbruvica to include combination use with ritumixab, and represents “the first approved non-chemotherapy combination option for the […]
Tracking tumors with Precipio’s liquid biopsy tech
In the era of personalized medicine, cancer patients will often have their tumors biopsied and analyzed as doctors hunt for mutations that are driving the patient’s condition. For some forms of cancer, doctors can recommend therapies that target particular genetic changes. “The problem is – and this is why cancer is such a tough disease […]
Ichor touts use of electroporation drug-delivery system in cervical cancer trial
Ichor Medical Systems said today that its TriGrid electroporation drug-delivery system was tapped for a Phase Ib/II clinical trial to administer an investigational therapeutic HPV DNA vaccine, GX-188E, developed by Genexine Inc. The trial is designed to test the efficacy of a DNA vaccine combined with an anti-PD-1 therapy in patients with HPV-induced advanced non-resectable […]
Novocure inks collaboration for pivotal pancreatic cancer trial
Novocure (NSDQ:NVCR) and US Oncology Research said today that the groups are collaborating on a phase III pivotal trial designed to test Novocure’s Tumor Treating Fields with nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine in patients with unresectable locally advanced pancreatic cancer. Using a network of community-based oncology practices, US Oncology Research plans to open 10 clinical trial sites to […]
BioEclipse looks to synergistic therapies to topple stubborn cancers
For the last 20 years, Pamela Contag has studied cancer. And in that time, the world’s understanding of cancer has changed dramatically. “I remember when people were saying ‘One gene, one protein,” which we now know is wrong,” she told Drug Delivery Business News. “And then we thought cancer was a disruption in proliferation and really […]
Researchers use microparticles for targeted delivery of brain cancer therapy
A team of researchers from Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Mass. Institute of Technology and Mass. General Hospital demonstrated that localizing the delivery of NAMPT inhibitors can extend survival in a mouse model of glioma, according to a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The scientists created a test to […]
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