Using Systems Biology to Beat Cancer

Sep 22, 2010

Merrimack Pharmaceuticals CEO Robert Mulroy says the traditional approach to cancer — making drugs that go after certain proteins — is "fundamentally flawed," according to the Forbes' Treatments blog's Robert Langreth. Merrimack is now working with Sanofi-Aventis to develop cancer drugs using the principles of systems biology.

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