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The Unexpected Challenges Of Moving From Discovery To Clinical The Unexpected Challenges Of Moving From Discovery To Clinical

Keystone Nano, a small oncology-focused company in State College, PA, recently received an IND approval from the FDA and launched its first clinical trial. While that transition from discovery to clinical is an exciting time for most companies, it is also a time of greater challenges as your product is used in humans for the first time. Jeff Davidson, CEO of Keystone Nano, has learned about many of these challenges first-hand.

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    Clinical News Roundup: Senate Confirms Gottlieb As FDA Commissioner

    Clinical news roundup for the week of May 14, 2017 with information on a new head of the FDA, inVentiv Health and INC Research merging, helping patients navigate cancer clinical trials, new standards for trial results, and more.

  • Samus Therapeutics Expands Clinical Development Program
    Samus Therapeutics Expands Clinical Development Program

    Samus Therapeutics is a privately-held, biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel therapeutics and diagnostics targeting the epichaperome, a foundational protein complex emergent from multiple disease states, including oncology and neurology. “We are the ‘anti-epichaperome company,’ says Jonathan Lewis, the company’s executive chairman and CEO. “Following various forms of cellular stress, chaperome units are rewired into the epichaperome network. Targeting and disrupting the epichaperome in cancer results in cell death  and in neurologic diseases, neuronal survival,  with no apparent effect on normal cells.”

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    Clinical News Roundup: Almac And inVentiv Health Partner On IRT

    Clinical news roundup for the week of December 4, 2016 with information on Almac partnering with inVentiv on IRT, ERT acquiring Exco In Touch, and the 21st Century Cures bill passing the Senate and moving on to the White House.

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