Oncology

Companies Oncology

Amal Therapeutics SA, Switzerland

Amal Therapeutics SA is a privately held Swiss biotech start-up company and a spin-off from the University of Geneva. Amal was incorporated on September 3rd 2012 and secured seed funding in February 2014 to establish and validate its technology platform. Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund led this in more

Alpine Institute for Drug Discovery SA, Switzerland

The Alpine Institute for Drug Discovery is a Switzerland-based company aiming at creating shared value for the community by maintaining industrial know-how in today’s changing pharmaceutical landscape. AiDD’s mission is to maximise the socio-economical impact of academic discoveries by performing tr more

News Oncology

• A clearer cancer test by measuring immune response
  

  The European Patent Office (EPO) today announced that French immunologist Jérôme Galon has been nominated for the European Inventor Award 2019 for his diagnostic cancer test based on a patient's immune response. His invention, which has improved the accuracy of cancer prognosis, uses clues found in more

• QIAGEN acquires bioinformatics company

  QIAGEN N.V. announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire N-of-One, Inc., a privately-held U.S. molecular decision support company and pioneer in clinical interpretation services for complex genomic data. The addition of N-of-One will enable QIAGEN to significantly expand its decision-suppor more

• Cancer identity technology makes it easier to find a tumor's 'address'
  

  Purdue University researchers have developed a technology aimed at making it easier to deliver cancer treatment to the right "address" in the body while also easing the painful side effects of chemotherapy on patients. One of the big issues with chemotherapy is that most treatment approaches focus o more

Job offers Oncology

• Doctoral students / PhD candidates (m/f/x)
  

  For our location in Pfaffenhofen we are seeking highly qualified candidates to fill the position: Doctoral students / PhD candidates (m/f/x) Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH offers an industrial promotion in cooperation with Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in the frame of Bavarian Research Foundati more

• Safety Physician Oncology (m/f/x)
  

  For our Clinical Safety & Pharmacovigilance department in our European headquarters we are seeking highly qualified candidates to fill the position: Safety Physician Oncology (m/f/x) Breast Cancer Indication. Daiichi Sankyo and its 15.000 employees in more than 20 countries are dedicated to the crea more

Publications Oncology

• Agreement between patients’ and radiation oncologists’ cancer diagnosis and prognosis perceptions: A cross sectional study in Japan

  by Lisa Jane Mackenzie, Mariko Leanne Carey, Eiji Suzuki, Robert William Sanson-Fisher, Hiromi Asada, Masakazu Ogura, Catherine D’Este, Michio Yoshimura, Masakazu Toi This study assessed agreement between radiation oncologist- and cancer patient-reported perceptions about cancer diagnosis, time s more

• Impact of race on dose selection of molecular-targeted agents in early-phase oncology trials

  We examined the impact of race on the maximum tolerated doses (MTD) and final approved doses (FAD) of single-agent molecular-targeted agents (MTA) in North America/Europe (NA/EU) and Asia. We searched PubMed and regulatory databases to identify targeted drugs approved globally and compared their FAD more

• Artificial intelligence in radiology

  Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, particularly deep learning, have demonstrated remarkable progress in image-recognition tasks. Methods ranging from convolutional neural networks to variational autoencoders have found myriad applications in the medical image analysis field, propelling it forw more