October 11, 2016 Off

ESMO 2016: Single-Arm Trials Improve Early Access to Rare Cancer Drugs

By Dino Mustafić

Although randomised clinical trials (RCTs) remain the gold standard for evaluating the benefit/risk of cancer drugs, single-arm trials (SATs) can provide invaluable opportunities to speed up cancer drug development and approval, in particular for drugs with dramatic activity and strong biological rationale in small populations with high unmet need, Dr. Jorge Martinalbo, Scientific Officer at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) reported at the ESMO 2016 Congress.

October 11, 2016 Off

BIOPHYTIS to implement SARA-data e-Health platform

By Dino Mustafić

BIOPHYTIS, a biotechnology company specialized in the development of drug candidates to treat aging diseases, has announced the implementation of a proprietary e-Health platform, SARA-data, to process patient data from its SARA clinical studies.

October 11, 2016 Off

Biocartis’ Idylla technology could enhance molecular diagnostic testing

By Dino Mustafić

Biocartis Group NV, a Belgian innovative molecular diagnostics company has published a comparative study organised by AstraZeneca where 12 different KRAS mutation detecting technologies, including Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) and quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), were compared for the detection of KRAS mutations in lung cancer, using blinded samples.

October 10, 2016 Off

NOXXON: NOX-A12 synergizes with both T cell and NK cell based therapies

By Dino Mustafić

NOXXON Pharma N.V. a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company primarily focused on cancer treatment, announced that it presented data yesterday at the ESMO conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, studying the role of CXCL12 inhibition by NOX-A12 (olaptesed pegol) in tumor stroma spheroids, a preclinical model that mimics the complexity of the tumor microenvironment.