Biotech startup gets multimillion-dollar grant to treat bone cancer at new Austin lab
Molecular Templates Inc., fresh off a move to an expanded lab, has landed a $15.2 million grant to further its pipeline of cancer-fighting drugs.
The award for the Austin biotechnology company was part of $93 million in funding announced Nov. 16 by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, a state agency that funds research and prevention efforts targeting the diseases.
Jason Kim, the company's president and chief financial of ficer, told Austin Business Journal that Molecular Templates… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - November 18, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Will Anderson Source Type: news
The dark side of 'junk' DNA
(UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center) Researchers at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center report in the journal Cell Reports that certain short, repetitive sequences of DNA, or 'junk,' play an important role in the development of Ewing sarcoma, a rare bone and soft tissue cancer that occurs most commonly in children and adolescents. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - November 1, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
In the Loop: Patient finds his 'new normal' after amputation
Randy Herlein was 51 when he traveled from his home in western Michigan to Rochester to receive treatment for a rare form of bone cancer. That treatment ultimately involved having his right leg amputated. And as he lay in a hospital bed at Mayo Clinic Hospital's Saint Marys campus one day after surgery, Randy struggled [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - October 31, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Cancer in Cavemen?
In this Medical News Minute, developed exclusively for Cancer Network, Dr. Bobby Lazzara discusses a recent case report of a 1.7-million-year-old osteosarcoma found in an extinct human lineage. (Source: CancerNetwork)
Source: CancerNetwork - October 6, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Bobby Lazzara, MD Tags: Sarcoma Source Type: news
Sarah Dransfield has leg AMPUTATED after leg sprain turned out to be bone cancer
Sarah Dransfield, from Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, was just 16 when she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. After chemotherapy didn't work, doctors revealed she needed an amputation. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
