Xceed Molecular Licenses Signature from Moffitt Cancer Center and Adds Moffitt to Strategic Collaborator Program

Focus on Developing New Molecular Test for Colon Cancer TAMPA, Fla., and WELLESLEY, Mass., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Moffitt Cancer Center and Xceed Molecular, a pioneer in the development of cost-effective, easy-to-use gene-expression analysis systems, announced today that the renowned ...

NCCN Updates Infection Guidelines to Include Information About H1N1 Virus (Swine Flu)

... MD; Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL; The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research I...

Sanofi-Aventis Recognized for Workplace Efforts to Prevent Cancer

...nson & Johnson, The Lance Armstrong Foundation, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company, Minot State University, H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, The National Cancer Institute (NCI), Novartis, The Oncology Nursing Society, OSI Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, PhRMA,...

TGen-led team is 1 of 7 selected for $1 million skin-cancer grants

...er Manipulating Immune Regulation in Adoptive T-cell Therapy for Melanoma Principal Investigators: Team Lead: Jeffrey Weber, M.D., Ph.D., H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Patrick Hwu, M.D., M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Identification and Validation of Combination Therapies for Mel...

National Cancer Coalition Announces Angel Grant Recipients

...cent Angel Grant recipients, which include: Dr. Steven Brem of the H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center, Dr. Julie Blatt of the University of North Carolina - Chapel...rosurgery and the Division Chief of the Neuro-Oncology Department at H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa. Dr. Brem is utilizing his Angel Grant to pursue...

NCCN Will Convene National Policy Summit on Comparative Effectiveness in Cancer Care

... MD; Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL; The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research I...

Highlights of Economic and Business Growth in the Tampa Bay Region (News Briefs)

...="_new"> thagerty@poly.usf.edu ) moffitt Ranked Among America's Best Hospitals for Cancer Tampa Bay-based moffitt Cancer Center ranked No. 16 on U.S. News & Wor...s for cancer. This is the 11th year in a row that moffitt has appeared on the news magazine's cancer ranking...

Cancer Patients Benefit From Speed, Accuracy of RapidArc Radiotherapy Treatments

...he residents of Brevard County since 1983, SCCC, an affiliate of the H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, is a comprehensive oncology practice ... also participates in onside clinical trials, collaborating with the H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center, Shands Cancer Center, and the National Cancer Institute. ...

Promising medical trainees receive funding to pursue research in hematology

...Mount Sinai School of Medicine John Leschke, BA, Medical College of Wisconsin Yedda Li, Washington University in St. Louis Qiyuan Liu, PhD, H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center Chonyang Lu, BS, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Rui Mao, Baylor College of Medicine Andrew Marshall, Fox Chase Cancer Center La...

Many Childhood Cancer Survivors Not Checking for Second Malignancies

...d await the findings of many randomized trials forthcoming in the next years," she added. In other news at the meeting, researchers from the H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Miami reported that while upwards of 70 percent of oncologists surveyed discuss fertility and preservation met...

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CMC, Moffitt Partner to Study Cancer

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Blumenthal Cancer Center at Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) in Charlotte is partnering with the Moffitt Cancer Center in a study that could lead to individualized treatments for specific types of cancer. CMC is the first hospital system ou...

Moffitt Cancer Center Signs Licensing Agreement with Frantz BioMarkers, LLC

...agnosis TAMPA, Fla., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- moffitt Cancer Center and Frantz BioMarkers, LLC hav... license maintenance fees, and royalties on sales. moffitt and Frantz BioMarkers will collaborate on ovarian ...arly stage when a cure is feasible. Researchers at moffitt and Frantz BioMarkers discovered that when CA125 i...

World Renowned Cancer Centers Implore Americans to Donate $1 to Make Change and Accelerate Cancer Research

... North Carolina Chapel Hill Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University Roswell Park Cancer Center Helen H. Di...

Sunesis Pharmaceuticals to Present Data on Two Product Candidates at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology

...mber 10, 2007, Sunesis management will host a conference call for investors to discuss the data being presented. Jeffrey Lancet, M.D., of the H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute will present results from Sunesis' Phase 1 clinical trial of SNS-595, a replication-dependent DNA damaging agent, a...

Vidaza Significantly Extends Overall Survival by 74% in Phase 3 Trial in Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

... we evaluate treatment options for higher-risk MDS," said Dr. Alan F. List, Chief, Malignant Hematology Division and Deputy Physician in Chief, H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute. "Importantly, as the first and only epigenetic therapy to have demonstrated a survival benefit in any cancer, th...

Callisto Pharmaceuticals Opens Additional Sites for Phase II Clinical Trial of Atiprimod in Advanced Carcinoid Cancer Patients

... University, 676 N. St. Clair Street, Suite 850, Chicago, IL and the H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL 33612, ...or Northwestern is Mary Mulcahy, MD, and the principal investigator for Lee moffitt is Larry K. Kvols, M.D. "The addition of these two major cancer centers to...

Inovio Biomedical's DNA Delivery Technology Significantly Enhances Potency of HIV DNA Vaccine

...head and neck cancer, and a phase I/II trial for breast cancer. Inovio's DNA delivery partners include Merck, Wyeth, Vical, University of Southampton, moffitt Cancer Center, and the U.S. Army, with four gene-based therapies and DNA vaccines in phase I clinical studies. Inovio is a leader in developing human ...

VioQuest Pharmaceuticals Announces Data Presentation for Its Akt Inhibitor VQD-002, at American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting

...tate cancer cells Author Block: Subhra Mohapatra, Baoky Chu, Xiuhua Zhao, Jin Cheng, W. Jackson Pledger. H. Lee moffitt Cancer Ctr. & Res. Inst., Tampa, FL About VioQuest Pharmaceuticals VioQuest Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (moffitt Cancer Center - bombarded a highly concentrated, crystallized form of an immune system protein isolated from the fish with X-rays, yielding incredibly...

Moffitt-USF head toward first human trials of anti-cancer drug that targets protein AKT

... H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, working in...e Drug Discovery Program and Associate Director of moffitt Research Institute. "What we discovered is a tailo..., the hypothesis-driven clinical trials planned at moffitt can move directly into a PhaseI/II trial. With ...

Researchers test new therapy for advanced melanoma

...very resistant to treatment. Researchers at H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute and the Uni...this year at Moffitt. The collaboration of USF and moffitt in this trial is a good example of translational r...nt for patients." The Phase 1 clinical trial by moffitt and Genetronics Biomedical Corp is evaluating the ...

Leukemia Drug Breakthrough Study In New England Journal Of Medicine

...the Hematologic Malignancies Program at the H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, recently c... In 2001, the National Cancer Institute awarded moffitt the status of a Comprehensive Cancer Center in rec...ials, prevention and cancer control. Additionally, moffitt is a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer N...

Study Demonstrates Gene Expression Microarrays are Comparable and Reproducible

... Ann Arbor, Mich.; Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Whitehead Institute, Boston, Mass.; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y.; and H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Fla. All five cell lines and RNA samples were derived from lung carcinomas, while the tissue samples were derived from multiple ...

Novel antiviral technology inhibits RSV infection in mice

...eatment is available for the infection. Researchers at USF's Joy McCann Culverhouse Airway Disease Research Center, working with scientists from the moffitt Cancer Center and TransGenex Nanobiotech Inc., used a revolutionary new technology known as RNA interference, or gene silencing, to knock out one of t...

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Debiopharm Group and Moffitt Cancer Center Sign Development and Commercialisation Agreement for Small Molecule Debio 0928 in Early Preclinical Development for Treatment of Solid Tumours

LAUSANNE, Switzerland and TAMPA, Florida, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Debiopharm Group (Debiopharm), a Swiss-based global biopharmaceutical group of companies with a focus on the development of prescription drugs that target unmet medical needs, and Moffitt Cancer Center (Moffitt), a non-profit Fl...

Samtheo Announces License Agreement with Moffitt Cancer Center for Exclusive Rights to Novel Akt Inhibitor

Cancer Targeted Therapeutic for Samtheo's Personalized Medicine Portfolio NEW YORK, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Samtheo Biopharma LLC has entered into a license agreement, through its subsidiary, Lyndor Biosciences LLC, with Moffitt Cancer Center, gaining exclusive worldwide rights to a small mo...

University of Florida Shands Cancer Center Selects OnCore(r) to Support its Collaborative Research Goals

...OnCore platform. "We began looking for a new clinical trials management system primarily because of our collaborative agreement with the moffitt Cancer Center," said Giselle Moore-Higgs, Assistant Director of Clinical Trials at UFSCC. "We wanted a system that would allow us to do coll...

Lexicon Initiates Phase 2 Clinical Trial of LX1032 in Patients With Carcinoid Syndrome

...entific officer at Lexicon. "The clinical trial sites will include The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas; the H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, Florida; and Hematology Oncology Services of Little Rock, Arkansas." LX1032 is being developed i...

Industry Professionals Get Schooled in Real-World Oncology Issues at NCCN Academy

...D; Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University , Chicago, IL; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL; The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center -- James Cancer Hospital and Solove Researc...

First Patient Dosed in Phase I Clinical Trial of Tigris Pharmaceuticals' GGTI-2418

...rights to GGTI-2418 from Yale University and the University of South Florida . Said M. Sebti, Ph.D., Director of the Drug Discovery Program at the moffitt Cancer Center and Andrew Hamilton, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry at Yale University were the co-inventors of GGTI-2418. About GGTI-2418 G...

NFGC Conducts Multi-Institutional Research Project in Ovarian Cancer

...Ph.D., and Johnathan Lancaster , M.D., Ph.D. ( moffitt Cancer Center ); Max S. Wicha , M.D., and We...personalized therapeutic care. About H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Located in Tampa , Florida , moffitt Cancer Center ( www.moffitt.org ) ...

World BioBank(TM) Launch Benefits Advanced Medical Research

... Law, Dallas, TX. He practiced law in Florida before serving as the Medical Director of the Biospecimen Repository and Total Cancer Care at the H. Lee moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute. He also co-directed the University of South Florida College of Medicine's Scholarly Concentration in Law &am...

Tigris Pharmaceuticals Files IND Application for GGTI-2418

...aberrant signal transduction pathways most likely to respond to GGTI-2418," stated Said M. Sebti, Ph.D., Director of the Drug Discovery Program at the moffitt Cancer Center and co-inventor of GGTI-2418. "This is a most important and gratifying step in the development of GGTI-2418 as a novel treatment for the...

ProCure Signs Agreement with .decimal, Inc. to Purchase Patient-Specific Devices for Its Proton Therapy Center in Oklahoma City

...with patient-specific devices used in Compensator-Based Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), including 21st Century Oncology sites and H. Lee moffitt Cancer and Research Center. With the addition of the facility in Oklahoma, .decimal will continue to develop new and innovative technologies wh...