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Pharma queues up for checkpoint inhibitor collaborations Amid fierce rivalries over the latest generation of cancer treatments, drug makers have been weaving a complex web of collaborations on combination therapies spanning much of the pharmaceutical industry. |
Chemistry World August 27, 2014 Phillip Broadwith |
Clinical collaborations drive cancer immunotherapy A joint clinical trial agreement between Merck & Co and Pfizer is the latest in a rather tangled web of tie-ups between companies with cancer drugs that harness patients' immune systems. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 9, 2014 |
Immunotherapies: The New Hope for Cancer Treatment The Cancer Research Institute is clearing a path to the future of immunotherapeutics. Ben Comer speaks to its CEO and director of scientific affairs, Jill O'Donnell-Tormey |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2014 Josh Baxt |
2015 Pipeline Report: Burning Bright The science of drug discovery is back on script and the stars are cued up for a new generation of breakthrough therapies. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Amy Maxmen |
Driving the Immune System to Attack Cancer A researcher's longtime efforts to drive T cells to attack tumors hits pay dirt. |
Chemistry World August 5, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Grabbing slices of the immuno-oncology pie An increasing number of companies are competing for a slice of the immuno-oncology market |
BusinessWeek August 26, 2010 Tom Randall |
Cocktails Are Next For Cancer-Drug Makers Taking a cue from the cocktails of drugs that have made AIDS survivable, drugmakers are pursuing combination therapies against cancer. |
Chemistry World June 11, 2015 Sarah Houlton |
Companies clamour for CAR-T The biopharmaceutical industry is getting excited about chimeric antigen receptor T-cells, or CAR-T cells, designed to harness the cell-killing power of the immune system. |
The Motley Fool June 21, 2007 Brian Orelli |
Dumpster Diving in Pfizer's Trash Investors are probably overreacting to Pfizer's decision, but only time -- and clinical trials -- will tell. |
The Motley Fool June 3, 2011 Brian Orelli |
Tag-Teaming Melanoma for Fun and Profit Bristol-Myers Squibb and Roche hook up. |
The Motley Fool September 7, 2007 Brian Orelli |
Merck Says No to This Protein An FDA advisory panel recommends unanimous approval of a new HIV drug from Merck. The new class of HIV medications fight the virus by blocking one key protein from entering cells. |
BusinessWeek May 27, 2010 Pettypiece & Gibson |
Training the Immune System to Fight Cancer Bristol-Myers' new melanoma drug may be a "game changer." |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2011 Brian Orelli |
4 Immunotherapies to Watch Just don't go all-in. |
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2011 Dickmeyer & Rosenbeck |
From Rut to Racetrack Can the pharmaceutical industry deliver on its objective to make cancer a curable, chronic condition? |
Chemistry World July 8, 2014 Phillip Broadwith |
First of a new breed of anticancer antibodies approved in Japan Ono pharmaceuticals' Opdivo (nivolumab) has been approved for treating melanomas where surgery is impossible. |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2007 Brian Orelli |
The Phase 2 Blues Drug developer Cytokinetics disappoints investors with failed clinical trials. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2010 Walter Armstrong |
The Next Wave: Pharm Exec's 2011 Pipeline Report 42 of the best new drugs in development or parked at the FDA |
Chemistry World April 17, 2008 Nuala Mora |
World's first therapeutic cancer vaccine approved In move that will be a fillip to cancer vaccine developers, US biotech Antigenics has won Russian approval to market Oncophage to treat kidney cancer. |
Chemistry World March 22, 2009 Sarah Houlton |
Integrin inhibitors could promote tumour growth A group of scientists has found that at low doses these drugs might actually have the opposite effect and promote tumor growth. |
Scientific American November 2008 Jessica Wapner |
Cancer Vaccine: Looking Beyond Tumor Size Proponents see hope in changing cancer vaccines' bad reputation |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2013 Ben Comer |
2014 Pipeline Report: The Sprint to Value Across a constellation of categories, bright new drugs are moving into position. The pharma model may have changed, but companies are keeping their blockbusters. |
Bio-IT World October 10, 2003 Kevin Davies |
Iressa's Trials and Tribulations The Iressa experience highlights the enormous stakes surrounding breakthrough therapies. |
The Motley Fool May 24, 2010 Brian Orelli |
ASCO Abstracts -- Pops and Drops! Ever since The American Society of Clinical Oncology began posting abstracts on-line -- and before that when they were sent to attendees -- investors have clamored to get a glimpse at the data. Here's your glimpse. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2010 Walter Armstrong |
Cancer: On Target Once More Over the past year or two, a handful of Phase III failures, including megablockbusters like Avastin and Sutent in trials for all kinds of common tumors, indicate that targeted therapy is generally a blunt instrument. |
Chemistry World July 31, 2014 Phillip Broadwith |
AstraZeneca stocks respiratory and cancer pipelines AstraZeneca has agreed to buy Spanish firm Almirall's respiratory drug assets for $875 million up front, plus up to $1.2 billion in performance milestone payments. |
The Motley Fool January 11, 2005 Charly Travers |
The Future of Cancer Vaccines Biotech companies developing cancer vaccines have been in investors' doghouses for a long time. Can a vaccine help stave off forms of the disease? |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2008 Ron Feemster |
The 2008 Pipeline Report We scrub industry's pipeline to find the drugs that everyone will be talking about in 2009 and beyond. |
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Catherine Arnst |
Biotech, Finally The past 30 years of biological discoveries, insights into the human genome, and exotic chemical manipulation have unleashed a wave of biological drugs, many of them reengineered human proteins. |
The Motley Fool May 10, 2005 Charly Travers |
The Future of Cancer Therapy Biotech firm Exelixis is blazing a trail for long-term success. Should investors take notice? |
The Motley Fool June 17, 2010 Luke Timmerman |
Oncothyreon's Cancer Vaccine Back in the Saddle as Merck KGaA Re-Starts Clinical Trials The German-based Merck got clearance from the FDA and local ethics review boards to resume two of three large pivotal trials. |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2012 |
Pharm Exec's 2013 Pipeline Report In this year's report, Ben Comer reveals that drug approvals are up, as new discoveries in biology peel away symptomology to expose underlying causes. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2005 Ron Feemster |
The PharmExec 2005 Pipeline Report Dry? Not quite. Instead of 1990s-style blockbusters, pharma's new molecules are niche drugs, cancer treatments and -- at last -- innovative mechanisms for troublesome targets: Acomplia [rimonabant] by Sanofi-Aventis... AMG 162 [denosumab] by Amgen... etc. |
BusinessWeek May 23, 2005 Catherine Arnst |
If It Works for Breast Cancer... Studies are under way to see if promising strategies used against breast cancer can be used to fight other killers, such as lung, colon, and prostate cancer. |
Bio-IT World August 13, 2003 Malorye Branca |
Targeting Tumors Next-generation cancer drugs will take aim with unprecedented certainty, but making them requires a new discovery and development paradigm. |
The Motley Fool March 1, 2007 Brian Lawler |
Know Your Drug Stock ABCs: Part 2 Investing in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries can be difficult. Here are terms investors should know to better understand how the clinical trial process involved with bringing a drug to market works. |
Managed Care June 2007 Thomas Morrow |
Dendritic Cell Vaccine Hits FDA Roadblock Questions about study design and analysis prompted the FDA to postpone action on Provenge, a treatment for advanced prostate cancer. |
BusinessWeek June 16, 2011 Langreth & Cortez |
When Two Cancer Drugs Are Better Than One Drugmakers are collaborating to test combinations of genetically targeted cancer drugs in hopes of boosting survival rates. |
The Motley Fool April 19, 2004 Charly Travers |
4 Promising Biotech IPOs Several recently gone-public biotechs boast surprisingly interesting drug pipelines. From drugs for hepatitis to hopeful cancer treatments, watch out for these four biotech debutantes. If trials go smoothly, they may be the next up-and-coming stocks in the industry. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2007 |
Thoughtleader: Stephen Sherwin, Cell Genesys Cell Genesys has been able to raise enough capital to gamble on what it CEO believes could be the future's most promising therapies, including gene activation, immunotherapy, and oncolytic virus therapy. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2006 |
Pipeline 32 compounds that are the early fruit of pharma's investment in targeted drug design. |
The Motley Fool June 9, 2010 Brian Orelli |
ASCO Pops and Drops Themes and company news from the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. |
The Motley Fool April 28, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Headline? Bad! Unexpected? No! For a company that only has one drug on the market, stopping a failing phase 3 clinical trial that's designed to expand the market of that drug is usually a major blow. But Onyx Pharmaceuticals was able to shrug it off. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2010 Walter Armstrong |
Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Targeting Pathways and Patients Although the most common cancer worldwide, lung cancer remains poorly treated, with the highest mortality rate. |
The Motley Fool June 23, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Wonder Drug! Maybe? Get the facts before jumping on this one. |
Managed Care May 2004 Thomas Morrow |
New Agents Regulating Tyrosine Kinase Can Be Used Against Several Cancers When traditional therapies fail in cancer treatment, turning off a chemical switch may offer hope to the hopeless. |
Chemistry World July 25, 2006 Bea Perks |
Clinical Chaos Under Scrutiny Clinical trials of new drugs need to be tightened up, according to an expert group convened in the aftermath of UK trials that left six people fighting for their lives. |
The Motley Fool March 31, 2011 Brian Orelli |
Better Buy? Seattle Genetics or ImmunoGen Battle of the heat-seeking cellular missiles. |
The Motley Fool June 5, 2007 Brian Lawler |
Exelixis Presents The pharmaceutical presents data from 2 of its top drug candidates at ASCO. Investors, take note. |
Chemistry World April 2006 Karen Harries-Rees |
Editorial: Drugs Testing on Trial A drugs trial in the UK that went disastrously wrong last month has raised questions about the ethics of using paid volunteers in clinical trials and the usefulness of animal testing. |
The Motley Fool November 2, 2004 Charly Travers |
Biotech's 5-Baggers: Part 3 Year after year, the hottest biotech companies with investors are those with drugs in development for the treatment of cancer. |