Despite the fact that the number of diagnosed cases of malignant mesothelioma are expected to rise in the next decades, there has been little real progress in available treatments, and the chemotherapy drug used to treat the disease is the same one that has been used for the last several years. Though there is a [...]
Many companies involved in cancer drug research and development need to re-think their use of safety data in helping to bring new drugs to cancer patients. Dr Richard Knight of Alderley Park-based ApconiX told last month’s conference, Accelerating Cancer Drug Development – from target to patients, that greater focus on pre-clinical safety should be fundamental to [...]
Accelerating Cancer Drug Development -From target to patients, BioNow will be hosting this event at Alderley Park on the 27th of February 2018. Focusing upon the strengths in the discovery, development and manufacture of cancer medicines in the North of England through to commercialisation (patients), this event will highlight industry, academic and clinical strengths whilst [...]
XenoGesis is teaming up with Sygnature Discovery and DMDG to host the forthcoming meeting on predictive toxicology in Discovery DMPK. The one-day meeting will be held at BioCity, Nottingham on Thursday 22nd March 2018. The meeting will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between members of the DMPK and toxicology research communities. The event will bring together talks from thought [...]
A co-founder of the company ApconiX, based in Alderley Park, has revealed his view that attitude towards safety in pre-clinical cancer drug development needs to change. “There is still huge unmet need in effective cancer treatment and it can be tempting for companies researching new drugs to focus mainly on efficacy data with safety issues [...]
The business has just received the accolade of Start-Up of the Year at the 17th awards hosted by BioNow, the northern England bio-medical and life sciences membership organisation. The company’s early success is based on delivering expertise in safety toxicology and ion channel electrophysiology to a changing pharmaceutical sector, in which more companies are outsourcing [...]
Abstract: We have previously reported the profile of target organs (defined as organs showing histopathological changes) in rodent and non-rodent toxicity studies conducted prior to first-time-in-man (FTiM) for 77 AstraZeneca candidate drugs (CDs). Here, we test the assumption that toxicity is exacerbated by dosing duration by comparing the incidence and severity of target organ toxicities in these [...]
Abstract: Purpose AZD7762 is a Chk1 kinase inhibitor which increases sensitivity to DNA-damaging agents, including gemcitabine. We evaluated the safety of AZD7762 monotherapy and with gemcitabine in advanced solid tumor patients. Experimental design In this Phase I study, patients received intravenous AZD7762 on days 1 and 8 of a 14-day run-in cycle (cycle 0; AZD7762 [...]
