Immunotherapy highly effective in treatment of rare skin cancerScience DailyThis had previously led scientists to consider people with desmoplastic melanoma, and other dense cancers, unlikely to benefit from immunotherapy. However, research has shown t… Continue reading
OncLiveDr. Oh Discusses Immunotherapy in Prostate CancerOncLiveWilliam K. Oh, MD, chief, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, professor of medicine and urology, Mount Sinai Hospital, discusses the role of immunotherapy for patients with prostat… Continue reading
UChicago NewsSpecific microbes in digestive tract can boost success for cancer immunotherapyUChicago News5 issue of Science, researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine show that specific strains of commensal bacteria—the swarms of microorganis… Continue reading
TODAYonline |
Drugmakers see a pricing blueprint in an $850000 gene therapy
TODAYonline SAN FRANCISCO – Global drugmakers are looking to a tiny biotech’s $850,000 therapy for a rare type of blindness as a model for getting paid for highly expensive – and effective – new medicines. Spark Therapeutics Inc <ONCE.O> plans to launch its … |
WIRED |
Clashes Over the Future of Gene Therapy at the US’s Biggest Biotech Meeting
WIRED others came to celebrate the very real, very current progress of a field 30 years in the making: gene therapy. And the promise of a much newer technology, Crispr, to propel the long-standing field forward with even greater momentum. After decades of … |