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New cell therapy model accelerates cancer treatment development

Drug Target Review

In just two years, CTMC has advanced eight therapies into clinical trials, harnessing genetic engineering to enhance T-cell effectiveness in the fight against cancer. Around 2020, Bock assumed the challenge of creating a new division at MD Anderson focused on advancing cell therapies by bridging the gap between research labs and the clinic.

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The rising impact of biomarkers in early clinical development

Drug Target Review

A surrogate endpoint is a marker used in clinical trials as a substitute for a direct clinical outcome. Susceptibility or risk biomarkers can detect the likelihood of a patient developing a disease or medical condition, which is crucial for treatments that are most effective before the onset of symptoms.

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David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Broad Institute

The organization has honored Liu for the development of the gene editing platforms base editing and prime editing, which can correct the vast majority of known disease-causing genetic variations and have already been used in at least 15 clinical trials, with life-saving results.

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The Long Road to End Tuberculosis

Codon

In the 1924 novel, The Magic Mountain , Thomas Mann describes a sanatorium patient named Anton Ferge as he undergoes a painful tuberculosis (TB) treatment. A 1994 review of 14 prospective trials and 12 case-control studies revealed that the BCG vaccine reduced the risk of TB by 50 percent. million people every year.

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Organoids: the versatile platform for discovery and regeneration

Drug Target Review

Now take a step further: envision testing drugs in these organoids to identify the ones that can treat disease safely and effectively without needing to run expensive clinical trials first. Cancer treatment is the most active area in which organoid ‘twins’ are being used to find the most effective personalised treatments.

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Advancing reduction of drug use as an endpoint in addiction treatment trials

National Institute on Drug Abuse: Nora's Blog

Advancing reduction of drug use as an endpoint in addiction treatment trials astewart Thu, 03/06/2025 - 09:59 Nora's Blog March 18, 2025 Image Getty Images/ SolStock This blog was also published in the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Weekly on March 18, 2025.&

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Approvals in the Crazy Year of 2020

Eye on FDA

During 2020, FDA was able to approve 53 – not surpassing the 2018 all time record of 59, but certainly an admirable second place. Notably, the 2020 NME approvals included 22 related to oncology, with 2 new GIST treatments, 3 in breast cancer and 2 approvals in prostate cancer. That, however, was not really the case.

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