BMS

After appointing a new CEO this summer, SQI Diagnostics is continuing its focus on services to pharmaceutical partners in providing custom multiplex immunogenicity panels, with its pipeline of in vitro diagnostics assays as a second priority, the company said this week.

The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation is hoping that an open-access research portal containing detailed longitudinal clinical and genomic data from multiple myeloma patients will spur collaborative research that advances much needed molecularly-targeted treatments.

Originally published Aug. 13.
The combined sales from Roche's treatments for HER2-positive breast cancer took the lead for pharmacogenomically targeted cancer drugs during the second quarter.

While RNAi drug developers continue to pursue major indications such as cancer and hepatitis C, a number of these companies are looking to niche diseases as good opportunities to apply the gene-silencing technology.

Two new personalized treatment options are now available for patients with metastatic or unresectable melanoma whose tumors harbor mutations in the BRAF gene.

A group of Australian researchers has identified a set of plasma proteins that could help predict patient levels of the Alzheimer's disease-associated molecule beta-amyloid.

Santaris Pharma this week announced that it has formed a world-wide drug discovery alliance with Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Qiagen said this week that GE Healthcare subsidiary Clarient will offer Qiagen's Therascreen KRAS RGQ PCR kit as a companion diagnostic to guide the use of Erbitux (cetuximab) as a treatment in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

Opko Health said this week that it has expanded its collaboration with drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb to use its protein biomarker discovery platform to identify markers predictive of patient response to several BMS therapeutics.