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Conversations from ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 2024 

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DDW’s Megan Thomas caught up with Oliver Rausch, Chief Scientific Officer at Storm Therapeutics, following the ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 2024, a global meeting focusing on promising new anticancer targets and agents, focusing on those in early phase clinical development. MT: What’s next for STORM’s research?

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ISCT 2023 key trends: redefining manufacturing 

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The International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT) is a global society of clinicians, regulators, technologists, and industry partners with a shared mission to drive the translation of all cell and gene (CGT) therapies for the benefit of patients worldwide. DDW’s Megan Thomas heard from attendees about key trends in the sector.

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10 Key Learnings from Successful Cellular and Gene Therapy Trials for Rare Diseases

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Melanie Blank, clinical team leader for General Medicine Branch 1 at the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Division of Clinical Evaluation and Pharmacology/Toxicology (DCEPT), the agency is seeing one or two new applications coming in every week for new gene therapies for different diseases.

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Strategies to Successfully Manage Complex Cell Therapy Clinical Trials

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According to a recent review published in Nature , as of April 2022 almost 1,800 active cell therapy clinical trials were listed in ClinicalTrials.gov, a 33 percent increase from 2021. The rapidly expanding landscape of cell therapy trials has put an operational strain on many clinical sites due to limited resources and infrastructure. “In

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The evolution of assays for immuno-oncology research

Drug Discovery World

However, over the last few decades, it has been widely accepted that interaction between the tumour and host immune response plays a critical role in regulating tumour biology and hence its progression. The number of new cases recorded between 2016 and 2018 was 375,400, with 167,142 deaths caused by cancer between 2017 and 2019.

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Global Roundup: Overland Pharma Launches in China to Provide Access to Breakthrough Therapies

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Uniquely positioned in the rapidly evolving local biotech ecosystem in China in addition to an expansive global presence, Overland will strategically partner to jointly develop innovative, novel therapeutics. We look forward to developing and advancing our differentiated pipeline of novel therapeutics in carefully selected disease areas.”.

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Tiziana announces appointment of Dr Neil Graham MBBS, MD, MPH as Chief Medical Officer

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Dr Graham is a medicines development expert and Infectious Diseases Epidemiologist with global Biotech and Pharma R&D experience in Phase I-IV therapeutics as well as in-vivo & in-vitro diagnostics, across many modalities. He has in depth Global Development Expertise (e.g. Dr. Graham earned an M.D.,