August, 2016

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Cancer Treatment Access: Right Strategy, Right Approach, Right Outcomes

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Join us for a one-hour live debate on Cancer Treatment Access: Right Strategy, Right Approach, Right Outcomes. To ensure funding and patient access to innovative cancer therapies, industry now have to navigate a new English cancer-treatment funding ecosystem, engaging with NICE and NHS England to realise a yes, no or conditional arrangement. How can oncology treatments achieve a positive NICE appraisal in the new world and what will the mechanics of RWE be in the event of conditional funding via

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Slow progress on Zika vaccine development – and at the expense of Ebola funding?

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The Zika Virus – Image by David Goodwill (RCSB Molecule of the Month 197, June 2016). [CC BY 4.0 ( [link] )%5D, via Wikimedia Commons. A recent PBS Newshour story highlights just some of the challenges in getting a vaccine for Zika tested and out on the market. The article confirms that about 30 vaccines are being developed and tested. Currently there is a multi-centre open-label Phase 1 clinical trial underway using the GLS-5700 vaccine, developed by Inovio.