Breast Cancer

Jun 29, 2021

A New Dawn for CRISPR, Intellia Edits Cells Inside the Body Intellia Therapeutics, along with its partner Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, recently announced its successful attempt in editing the cells inside the body leveraging the CRISPR technique. The world’s first-ever trial that has their DNA edited through an in...

Sep 15, 2020

AstraZeneca/ Oxford resumes the trial of their COVID-19 vaccine in the UK After receiving a go-ahead from the UK’s Medicines Health Regulatory Authority, AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford have resumed the trials of their experimental coronavirus candidate AZD1222 in the country. A rapid review by the tria...

Jul 23, 2020

Olema Oncology raises USD 54 Million for breast cancer program Olema Oncology has raised USD 54 million to push its lead program into the clinic and boost its R&D efforts in other areas.   The capital will bankroll a phase 1/2 study of the asset, OP-1250, as a single agent. Olema Oncology will a...

Jul 16, 2020

Orchard licenses the gene therapy technology from GlaxoSmithKline  Orchard Therapeutics has permitted lentiviral stable cell line technology from GlaxoSmithKline for its use in hematopoietic stem cell gene therapies. GSK filed for patents on the tech before selling its rare disease gene therapy portfolio to...

Jul 01, 2020

Over the past few decades Cancer has emerged as a major public health concern worldwide. Cancer is the second leading cause of deaths that takes place worldwide. Every sixth death is due to cancer, and in 2018 was estimated to be responsible for 9.6 million deaths. Costing people quality of lives and eventually lea...

Jun 18, 2020

Lassen Therapeutics to create anti-IL-11 antibody for cancer and fibrosis Lassen Therapeutics is revealing USD 31 million from Frazier Healthcare Partners, Alta Venture and Longwood Fund and has an aim to create antibodies for cancer and fibrosis treatment. IL-11, a cytokine that plays a role in both disease are...

Oct 24, 2019

Metastatic HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Metastatic HER2-Positive Breast Cancer is one of the types of breast cancer in which breast cancer cells test show positive status for a protein receptor called human epidermal growth factor receptor 2. The normal function of this protein is to control how a healthy breast...

Oct 16, 2019

HR-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer treatment landscape focuses on the complexity of the specific cancer type and the treatment differ according to the biomarker status. The trend suggests a greater bend towards personalized medicine based upon patient biomarkers and physiologic characteristics In our last a...

Aug 29, 2019

FDA urges Pharma giants to increase their inclusion of men in new Breast Cancer trials The recent FDA recommendations have urged the Pharma companies for the inclusion of men in the clinical trials to test new breast cancer drugs. Men rarely develop Breast cancer. Less than 1% of men develop Breast cancer. And 1...

Apr 09, 2019

Anylam, Regeneron to broaden the scope of R&D in Pharma Alnylam in collaboration with Regeneron is expanding its research on NASH. Regeneron with the capability of generating various targets via antibody approach is going to get infused with USD 800 million upfront. The joint deal will help in expanding R&am...