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CancerVar: A New Bioinformatics Tool Developed for Clinical Interpretation of Cancer Mutations

XTalks

On Saturday, researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have announced that they developed and launched a new bioinformatics software tool called CancerVar (cancer variant interpretation). Why Was CancerVar Developed? What is CancerVar? Live and On-Demand: Monday, June 13, 2022, at 12pm EDT (9am PDT).

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Grand Rounds February 23, 2024: Virtual Vigilance: Monitoring of Decentralized Clinical Trials (Adrian Hernandez, MD; Christopher J. Lindsell, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The global decentralized clinical trial market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 30.1% There is agreement that trials need to meet the people, at home and covering clinical trial deserts. Regardless of the trial inclusion and exclusion is routine. from 2021 to 2026.

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M2GEN partners with Zephyr AI to identify treatments for cancer patients

Pharmaceutical Technology

Oncology-focused bioinformatics firm M2GEN has entered a multi-year strategic collaboration with Zephyr AI to identify treatments and cures for cancer patients. M2GEN and Zephyr AI will together discover new cancer treatments and expanded use cases for better identifying new targets and enhancing clinical trial design.

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UK research partners team up to accelerate MND drug discovery

Drug Discovery World

The proposed programme uses bioinformatics approaches and experimental models to validate and de-risk a portfolio of potential MND therapeutic targets. Our plan is to use cutting-edge bioinformatics approaches and a wide range of experimental models to validate and de-risk a portfolio of potential MND therapeutic targets.”

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Strategic multi-platform collaboration to develop innovative oncology therapeutics 

Drug Discovery World

The collaboration contemplates conducting preclinical studies and a Phase I clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of the combination with the objective of further enhancing IMA203 T cell responses. Evaluating Immatics’ IMA203 TCR-T therapy, targeting PRAME, in combination with Moderna’s PRAME mRNA-based cancer vaccine.

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The future of AI drug discovery & development in immunology and GPCR research

pharmaphorum

With approximately one third of all current FDA-approved drugs targeting GPCRs, Verily/Sosei Heptares are looking to expedite GPCR research within not only immunology, but also gastroenterology and immuno-oncology as well, and the latest data bodes well for future development of therapeutic options in these areas.

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Can technology help diversify clinical trials?

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This is the second in a two-part series examining how pharma can embrace the DEI agenda to create more effective medicines through more representative clinical trials. The same principles are increasingly being applied to clinical trials to improve diversity, mitigate bias, and reinforce inclusion in clinical trials.