Researchers at Yale University published research in Molecular Biology and Evolution describing a new molecular analysis approach to quantify DNA changes that contribute to cancer growth.

BioNTech continues to build on the success of the company’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine co-developed with Pfizer, rapidly expanding its investigational pipeline to include additional infectious diseases and oncology with a first-in-class CAR-T program in solid tumors.

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting is running from April 7-13 in New Orleans, with hundreds of presentations on cutting-edge cancer research. The presentations run the gamut from preclinical studies to late-stage clinical trials. BioSpace looks at some of the preclinical and early-stage studies presented.

At the Clinical Trials Plenary Session at the 2022 AACR Annual Meeting, Dr. John Haanen, M.D., Ph.D., of the Netherlands Cancer Institute presented data from BioNTech’s ongoing first-in-human Phase I/II trial of the company’s CAR-T cell therapy BNT211 in patients with advanced solid tumors.

Roche partnered with Bristol Myers Squibb to utilize two digital pathology platforms that would advance research into treatment options for patients diagnosed to have solid tumors. 

BioNTech and Medigene announced a global agreement to develop T-cell immunotherapies against cancer. The three-year collaboration will focus on multiple solid tumor targets. 

Incyte Corporation withdrew the New Drug Application (NDA) for the company’s candidate drug for various types of lymphoma.

TScan Therapeutics secured clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the company’s investigational new drug application to assess TSC-100 in treating patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT).

Four years after partnering with GammaDelta Therapeutics to develop therapies for solid tumors, Takeda Pharmaceutical pulled the trigger and exercised its option to acquire the London-based company.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to GlaxoSmithKline’s PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor Jemperli (dostarlimab) for a wider group of indications for adults with mismatch repair-deficient (dMMR) recurrent or advanced endometrial cancer.