Actuate Therapeutics’ treatment candidate elraglusib significantly lowered the risk of death — about doubling one-year survival rates — among…
Lindsey Shapiro, PhD
Lindsey earned her PhD in neuroscience from Emory University in Atlanta, where she studied novel therapeutic strategies for treatment-resistant forms of epilepsy. She was awarded a fellowship from the American Epilepsy Society in 2019 for this research. Lindsey also previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher, studying the role of inflammation in epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease.
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GYNECOLOGICAL CANCER
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When added to standard care, Imunon’s immunotherapy candidate IMNN-001 extended the average survival for people with newly diagnosed advanced…
PANCREATIC CANCER
FDA OKs clinical testing of oral treatment for pancreatic cancer
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GYNECOLOGICAL CANCER
Tepylute for breast, ovarian cancer launched in US
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Caribou Biosciences is reprioritizing its pipeline to focus on two of its CAR T-cell therapies for blood cancer, including…
PANCREATIC CANCER
MUC5AC protein could predict pancreatic cancer prognosis: Study
Blood levels of the MUC5AC protein could help predict outcomes in people who have surgery for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA),…
April 21 marks AML World Awareness Day — a global effort to boost recognition of acute myeloid leukemia (AML)…
The LY6H and GRM3 proteins could serve as potential biomarkers of glioma-related epilepsy (GRE), according to a study. Among…
Adding the investigational therapy LAM561 to standard of care treatment may delay disease progression or death in people with newly…