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AACR Business Roundup: Thermo Fisher, Mission Bio, Stand Up To Cancer, Cancer Research UK

The American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting wrapped up today in Chicago. Below are selected business briefs from the conference.

UPDATE: Multi-Omics Researchers Among Recipients of New Stand Up to Cancer Awards

Stand Up to Cancer is teaming with Microsoft and SITC to provide a new round of $11 million in grants to study cancer immunotherapies.

Stand Up to Cancer Launches $16.6M Effort for Early-Stage Cancer Detection, Treatment

The initiative's four research projects will use use genetic and other technologies to detect and treat cancer at its earliest stages.

SU2C Funds Dutch-led Effort to Establish 'Living Biobank' of Tumors

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) –The fundraising organization Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) has provided a grant of €6 million ($8.1 million) to investigators at the Dutch Cancer Society and the American Association for Cancer Research to fund an effort to grow and study living tumors from patient samples

New Initiative Leveraging Genomics, Immunotherapeutics for Childhood Cancer Receives $14.5M in Funding

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A multi-organization initiative has been created with the goal of discovering new therapies for childhood cancers using genomics as well as immunotherapeutic technologies.