Latest Acute myeloid leukemia Stories
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ambit Biosciences Inc. today announced that the company has closed the first $25 million tranche of a new $50 million preferred stock financing to support continued advancement of its lead drug candidate, quizartinib. Existing investor OrbiMed Advisors led the financing with participation from other existing Ambit investors including Aisling Capital, Apposite Healthcare, Roche Ventures, GrowthWorks, MedImmune Ventures, Forward Ventures, GIMV,...
New insight into the aggressive behavior of certain adult B-acute lymphoblastic leukemias has provided researchers with a potential new prognostic biomarker and a promising new therapeutic target. The research, conducted by Ari Melnick, M.D., associate professor of medicine and director of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Center for Biomedical and Physical Sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College and a hematologist-oncologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center,...
NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (API), a private biopharmaceutical company that develops innovative targeted radio-immunotherapeutics, announced that the poster summarizing the results for Phase I study of Actimab-A, its antibody directed alpha emitter drug candidate, has won a first place poster presentation award at the 8th Annual Hematologic Malignancies 2012 Conference held in Houston, TX, from October 10-14. The award was presented to...
NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (API), a biopharmaceutical company that develops innovative targeted payload immunotherapeutics, announced that Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD has joined the Company's ongoing Phase I/II trial in newly diagnosed elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The trial is designed to establish safety and efficacy of API's drug Actimab-A in AML patients over the age of 60....
NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (API), a biopharmaceutical company that develops innovative targeted payload immunotherapeutics, announced that Dr. Hagop Kantarjian, MD has joined the Company's Clinical Advisory Board. Dr. Kantarjian who heads the largest leukemia service in the world at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX will help the company in developing its clinical stage drug candidates in the field of hematologic oncology,...
SEATTLE, Sept. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. ("CTI") (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) announced today that the phase 1 study data of its highly selective oral JAK2 inhibitor pacritinib, or SB1518, showed encouraging anti-tumor activity and good tolerability in 34 patients with relapsed/refractory lymphoma. The results were published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in September, 2012. Thirty-four patients received daily oral doses of pacritinib ranging from...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Eutropics Pharmaceuticals has signed a contract with the National Cancer Institute through the Small Business Initiative Research (NCI-SBIR) program to develop its proprietary BH3 profiling diagnostic assay for personalized medicine approaches in Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) patient management. The assay provides a biomarker/ diagnostic to help guide the use of several approved therapies for multiple cancer indications and is being...
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Trovagene, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROV), a developer of transrenal molecular diagnostics, announced it has granted Quest Diagnostics, the world's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, a non-exclusive license to incorporate nucleophosmin protein (NPM1) into research and clinical testing services related to acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). Trovagene holds an exclusive worldwide license to US patent 8,222,370 and the...
NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (API) announced today that Geraldine Henwood, an experienced biopharmaceutical executive, joined the Company's management team in the consultative capacity of Chief Development Officer, Iomab-B. Ms. Henwood will spearhead efforts on further development of its clinical stage Iomab-B drug candidate. Iomab-B is a monoclonal antibody construct in-licensed by API from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in...
NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (API), a biopharmaceutical company that develops innovative targeted payload immunotherapeutics, announced that MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas has joined the Company's ongoing Phase I/II trial in newly diagnosed patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The trial is designed to establish safety and efficacy of API's drug Actimab-A in AML patients over the age of 60. Actimab-A treatment consists...
