Drug Development

Pancreatic Cancer Research News and Journal Articles

News In this weeks news: Peregrine’s cancer drug data disappoints; shares plunge | Reuters Peregrine Pharmaceuticals (PPHM.O) said an independent assessment of data from a mid-stage trial showed unexpectedly high progression-free survival rates in lung cancer patients receiving standard chemotherapy, raising doubts about the future of its lung cancer trial. Boulder-based Clovis Oncology reports 2011 […]

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Latest Pancreatic Cancer News and Articles

News In this weeks news: Threshold’s phase 2b trial of TH-302 in patients with pancreatic cancer meets primary endpoint Biotechnology company Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that its 214 patient randomized controlled phase 2b clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of two doses of the investigational agent TH-302 in combination with gemcitabine compared to gemcitabine

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AACR Videos on YouTube

Earlier this month, the AACR held it’s Molecular Targets meeting.  The interviews from the meeting are available on YouTube, and you can subscribe to the channel.  Here’s an interesting interview with Dr. Nadia Harbeck with some interesting news about some trials concerning the plasminogen activator system which plays a role in metastasis.  One of these

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New Pancreatic Cancer Drug Trials

Along with a resurgence in interest from the research and drug discovery communities in pancreatic cancer, there’s been a concomitant increase in the number of drug trials over the past couple of years. Last year, Concordia Pharmaceuticals released the results of it’s latest Phase II trial for Salirasib (a K-ras inhibitor).  Since 90% of pancreatic

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Pancreatic Cancer Genomics Group

In previous blog postings, I’ve mentioned the fact that I’m a fan of the Mendeley website.  It’s a great tool to let scientists share papers that are considered significant to a particular area of study.  In my case, I’m interested in cancer biology, so I started a Pancreatic Cancer Genomics Group in Mendeley.  Each week,

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The Semantic Web and Drug Discovery

The Semantic Web and Drug Discovery was a recent topic at the San Diego Informatics Lunch forum.  This is an informal get-together of bioinformatics and cheminformatics practitioners to share ideas and discuss how different technologies can be applied in our disciplines. The topic arose because although the Semantic Web has been talked about for nearly

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Social Media for Scientists

Social Media for Scientists was the latest topic at this month’s San Diego Informatics Lunch Forum meeting. Rich Apodaca of Metamolecular discussed his experiences in creating the Chempedia Labs site.  This site, based on the Biostar, and Stack Overflow sites, is designed to help chemists ask and answer chemistry related questions and is one of

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Grails In An Assay Development Setting

Grails’ ease-of-use makes it an ideal framework for rapid application development.  In most businesses governed by the simple Time = Money equation, the ability to quickly create a fully functional web application that can be deployed on the Java platform is a no-brainer, even for the non-technical set.  However, in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries

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