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Follow the Money: NCI Awards Grant For Prostate Cancer Treatment Study, Recruiting Participants For Immunotherapy Drug Trials
Sep 27 | Clinical Research News | The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai nets a grant to identify the best prostate cancer treatment for people with HIV; EverImmune will conduct a phase I/II clinical trial for its drug candidate Oncobax AK in patients undergoing immunotherapy; NIH establishes the Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Consortium to advance the generation and analysis of “multi-omic” data for human health research; more. More -
Proteomics-Based Assays To Enable Precision Medicine For Ovarian Cancer
Sep 26 | Clinical Research News | Over 900 genes have been implicated in the resistance of tumors to platinum-based chemotherapy that map to many different cellular pathways, thwarting efforts to identify a biomarker to predict refractoriness. More -
Adopting New Patient-Centric Payment Solutions for Whole-Industry Benefits
Sep 22 | Clinical Research News | The clinical trial landscape has a long-acknowledged problem – a lack of participant diversity. Most clinical trial participants are from higher-income households, white and male. More -
COVID Vaccine Developers May Want To Pivot To Symptom Prevention
Sep 19 | Clinical Research News | Vaccine developers may want to consider designing formulations intended to prevent symptoms rather than infection, which the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated can be hard to do with any long-lasting effect. More -
City of Hope’s Harmonized, Findable, Accessible Precision Medicine Data Platform
Sep 14 | Clinical Research News | INNOVATIVE PRACTICES AWARDS—When City of Hope wanted to better use its primary and secondary clinical research data and harmonize files on more than 700,000 patients so they were findable and accessible, the hospital built a highly scalable, compliant cloud-based platform. More


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