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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: MACK) today announced the presentation of Phase 1 safety and clinical results evaluating two potential new therapies with a novel target - ErbB3, a signaling receptor believed to be responsible for triggering tumor growth and resistance in a number of malignancies including breast, ovarian, gastric, esophageal and bladder cancers. The two studies were presented in poster sessions at the European...
BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Esperance Pharmaceuticals today announced the completion of the run-in cohort of its Phase 2, randomized, multi?center trial of EP?100 in combination with paclitaxel for patients with advanced ovarian cancer. EP?100 is a targeted membrane?disrupting peptide (tMDP) designed to seek and destroy cancer cells that over?express luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) receptors on their surfaces. LHRH receptors are over?expressed in a...
BETHLEHEM, Pa., Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Saladax Biomedical, Inc., a privately held company developing and commercializing novel diagnostic assays to achieve the promise of personalized medicine for new and existing therapeutics, announced today the company has expanded its existing relationship with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) by entering into a Master Early Development Collaboration Agreement, which may include multiple feasibility studies and companion diagnostic...
TSX Venture: QPT EDMONTON, July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Quest PharmaTech Inc. (TSX-V: QPT) ("Quest" or the "Company"), a pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products for the treatment of cancer, announces that it has hosted and completed a clinical investigators meeting in Rome, Italy with all of the Italian investigators participating in the ongoing, international Phase II oregovomab clinical trial for advanced ovarian cancer patients. The clinical meeting...
BETHLEHEM, Pa., July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Saladax Biomedical, Inc., a privately held company developing and commercializing novel diagnostic assays to achieve the promise of personalized medicine for new and existing therapeutics, announced today the company has achieved CE mark registration for its MyPaclitaxel(TM) and MyDocetaxel(TM) therapeutic dose management (TDM) MyCare(TM) assays, enabling commercialization in the European Union (EU). Saladax's MyCare technology...
CALGARY, June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ("Oncolytics") (TSX:ONC) (NASDAQ:ONCY) today announced that it has entered into an agreement whereby the NCIC Clinical Trials Group (NCIC CTG) at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, will sponsor and conduct a randomized Phase II study of REOLYSIN(®) in patients with advanced or metastatic breast cancer. "We are excited to announce our fourth randomized study with the NCIC CTG," said Dr. Brad Thompson, President...
CALGARY, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ("Oncolytics") (TSX: ONC) NASDAQ: ONCY) announced today that the Company's independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) has reviewed the safety data for the first stage of its Phase III trial of REOLYSIN in combination with carboplatin and paclitaxel for the treatment of head and neck cancers (REO 018). Based on the review of the safety data the DMC has recommended that enrollment continue in the study. "The safety...
BATON ROUGE, La., June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Esperance Pharmaceuticals presented its Phase 1 study of EP-100, a novel targeted membrane?disrupting peptide (tMDP) in advanced solid tumors at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. EP?100 is designed to seek and destroy cancer cells that over?express luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) receptors on their surfaces. LHRH receptors are over?expressed in a wide range of cancers....
SAN DIEGO, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Marshall Edwards, Inc. (Nasdaq: MSHL), an oncology company focused on the clinical development of novel therapeutics targeting cancer metabolism, announced results from a Phase I clinical trial of its lead drug candidate ME-143 in patients with solid refractory tumors. The data were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago today. "We are encouraged by the results from this first-in-human study of...
NATICK, Mass., June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) regulatory approval of 32 mm and 38 mm lengths for the PROMUS Element((TM)) Plus Everolimus-Eluting Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent System, the company's next-generation drug-eluting stent (DES) technology. The PROMUS Element Stent is built on an innovative platinum chromium (PtCr) platform with the market-leading everolimus drug...
