Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
The lead investigators said that Foundation Medicine's NGS test will enable the beginning of targeted treatment within seven days of diagnosis.
Univ. of Cambridge Lands $6.3M for Blood Cancer Study
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society grant will fund genome-wide analysis research.
NHGRI, Partners Start Drug Repurposing Collaboration
NHGRI's rare diseases program will partner with The University of Kansas and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to speed up therapeutic development.
LLS will select ten small molecule candidates deemed to have the best chance of quickly advancing to clinical trials from its portfolio of grant-funded academic research projects, and Forma will use its computational solvent mapping technology to ready the molecules for the clinic.