Today's Rundown Featured Story | Thursday, October 24, 2019 President Donald Trump is set to pick oncologist Stephen Hahn, currently chief medical executive at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, as the next FDA commissioner, forgoing current leader Ned Sharpless. |
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Top Stories Thursday, October 24, 2019 AstraZeneca has scrapped development of savolitinib as a monotherapy treatment for papillary renal cell carcinoma. The phase 3 program was one of five projects removed from AstraZeneca’s pipeline in conjunction with its second-quarter results. Thursday, October 24, 2019 The National Institutes of Health and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have each committed $100 million to advance cures for HIV and sickle cell disease. The goal is to start testing in vivo gene-based treatments for the diseases in humans within 10 years and ultimately to make them available at a cost that enables global use. Monday, October 21, 2019 Clinical trials involve massive complexity and, often, systems that lack consistency and discipline. With a new perspective to an old problem, WCG coordinates the execution of six proven strategies to dramatically and consistently bring clinical studies to launch faster and at a lower cost. Thursday, October 24, 2019 Jobs are on the chopping block at Acorda Therapeutics and Alkermes as each company works to cut costs and stay alive. Acorda will lay off about one-quarter of its employees, while Alkermes will cut 160 jobs. Thursday, October 24, 2019 Clinical study tech company TrialSpark teamed up with mental health firm Limbix to work on a new “digital therapeutic” for adolescent depression. | Better than the other transgenics. Better than in vitro display. Better than humanization. AlivaMabTM Mouse from Ablexis delivers quality, speed and value in generating development-ready antibodies that meet your target product profile. Contact us at [email protected] to learn more. ablexis.com |
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