Tag: Europe
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Trial Testing Aspirin to Prevent Cancer Recurrence
22 October 2015. A new late-stage clinical trial is underway in the U.K. testing the ability of a daily aspirin to prevent the recurrence of solid tumor cancers. The trial is financed by the advocacy group Cancer Research UK and National Institute for Health Research, a medical research funding agency. The study, led by oncologist…
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Immunotherapy Start-Up Gains $102M in Venture Funds
20 October 2015. A new enterprise founded by researchers in the U.S. and Europe that aims to provide personalized cancer therapies harnessing the immune system raised $102 million in its first round of venture financing. The company Gritstone Oncology — in San Francisco and Cambridge, Massachusetts — says it plans to focus initially on developing…
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Evotec, Foundation Partner on Rare Juvenile Disease
20 October 2015. The drug discovery company Evotec AG and Beyond Batten Disease Foundation are collaborating on discovery of new drugs to treat juvenile Batten disease, a rare inherited neurodegenerative disorder. Financial details of the partnership were not revealed. Batten disease is a rare genetic condition of the nervous system that in most cases begins…
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Study Shows Blood Test Finds Early Pancreatic Cancer
12 October 2015. An evaluation of a blood test to find early stages of pancreatic cancer showed the test successfully identified early-stage cancer in the vast majority of study participants with the disease. The findings published by a team from diagnostics company VolitionRx in Belgium and Lund University in Sweden appeared last week in the…
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Research Group, CureVac Partner on AIDS Vaccine
10 September 2015. An organization encouraging development of AIDS vaccines and the pharmaceutical company CureVac are collaborating on creating a potent AIDS vaccine technology. Financial and intellectual property aspects of the partnership between the not-for-profit International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, or IAVI, and CureVac in Tubingen, Germany were not disclosed. IAVI sponsors research and development of…
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Patent Awarded for Cancer-Detecting Blood Test
10 September 2015. VolitionRx, a developer of blood tests to screen for cancer, received a U.S. patent for its underlying technology that detects changes in basic cell proteins found in blood. Patent number 9,128,086 was issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on 8 September to four inventors and assigned to the company, incorporated…
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Sanofi, Google to Partner on Diabetes Care, Devices
31 August 2015. The pharmaceutical company Sanofi is collaborating with Google’s life sciences teams to develop technologies for improving the care of people with diabetes. Financial and intellectual property details of the partnership were not disclosed. Diabetes is a chronic condition where the pancreas does not create enough insulin to process the sugar glucose to flow…
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In-Heart Pacemaker Benefits Shown in Clinical Trial
31 August 2015. First reports from a clinical trial of a heart pacemaker placed inside the heart without wires shows after six months the device maintained effective pacing of patients’ hearts and worked without serious adverse effects in a vast majority of cases. Results of the trial testing the Nanostim device by St. Jude Medical…
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Trial Shows Response to Antibody Treating Multiple Myeloma
27 August 2015. An early-stage clinical trial shows some patients receiving an engineered antibody to attack multiple myeloma cancer cells experienced at least a partial remission of their disease. Results of the study, led by oncologist Paul Richardson of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, appeared yesterday in New England Journal of Medicine. Multiple…
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Inside Air Monitor Devised as Smartphone Add-On
13 August 2015. Engineers in Finland designed a miniaturized system for measuring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases with smartphones to monitor interior air quality for health care needs. The team at VTT Technical Research Centre, an applied research institute in Finland, developed the monitor as an add-on to mobile devices, with a spin-off…