| Key considerations for running rare oncology trials. Recruiting patients with specific biomarkers and genetic characteristics can be difficult for any clinical trial, even more so, for rare oncology trials. Join Synteract’s oncology and rare experts as they tackle these challenges in our next webinar, Rare Cancers: Special Considerations for Complex Clinical Studies. | Intellia to kickstart first single-course ‘curative’ CRISPR shot, as it hopes to beat rivals Alnylam, Ionis and Pfizer The top 10 takeover targets in biopharma Evotec nabs Gates Foundation cash for low-income country COVID-19 antibody work Lilly I-O exec jumps to CAR-T biotech Exuma Kite's former EU chief Nowers joins NK cell startup ONK as CEO Genentech taps Stanford University spinout for AI drug discovery partnership Breast cancer study uncovers new RNA targets for treatment and diagnostics Featured Story By Ben Adams It’s been a good year for Intellia: One of its founders, Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., nabbed the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her CRISPR research. read more |
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