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2012-04-23

Kancera presents at Boston seminar April 27th, 2012.

Kancera presents the company and its projects at Cambridge Innovation Center in Boston (MA) USA on Friday April 27th, 2012. The overall topic of the seminar is "Lead Generation and Structure-Based Drug Design in Cancer Research".

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2012-04-18

Kanceras ROR project has been selected for presentation at the ASCO annual meeting in Chicago.

Kancera announced today that American Society of Clinical Oncology has selected Kancera's ROR project for presentation at this year's major conference in Chicago on June 1-5, 2012.The scientific results will be presented by Professor Håkan Mellstedt in a paper...

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2012-03-21

Kancera’s ROR inhibitors show superior efficacy in 3D pancreatic tumor model.

Kancera today announced that its ROR inhibitor show effect in an advanced and challenging human pancreatic cancer model. In the model, the Kancera compounds show superior efficacy compared to gemcitabine, today's most commonly used treatment for pancreatic cancer. The...

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2012-02-10

Kancera’s ROR-inhibitor provides higher specificity than competing products

On February 8th Kancera's CEO, Dr. Thomas Olin, presented the company and new data in its ROR inhibitor project on the "6th Swiss-Scandinavian Bio-Business Seminar" in Zurich. In his presentation Dr. Olin described how Kancera, in collaboration with...

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2012-02-03

Kancera file patents for ROR inhibitors against cancer

Kancera reports that the company has registered a patent application (EP12153357) for new substances that prevents the ability of the cancer to survive. The new patent is based on Kancera's ROR technology directed against both leukemia and solid tumors....

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2012-02-02

Kanceras strategy is given attention when global expertise in cancer gathers in Washington DC

Today Kanceras Chief Scientific Officer, Professor Lars Ährlund-Richter, presents the company and its PFKFB3 inhibitor project at the World Cancer Metabolism Summit in Washington. The meeting brings together world experts in oncology from both the pharmaceutical industry and academia....

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2012-01-27

iNovacia announces collaboration with Agios Pharmaceuticals

iNovacia AB, the provider of small molecule drug discovery services, today announced that it has entered into a high-throughput screening collaboration with Agios Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge (MA), USA.

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2011-12-23

Kancera strengthens its patent portfolio in cancer metabolism

Kancera report that the Company has registered a patent application for novel compounds targeting the energy metabolism of cancer. The new patent application covers a strategy to facilitate the uptake of substances in cancer cells. These synthetic molecules weaken...

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2011-12-08

iNovacia, GE Healthcare and scientists at Karolinska Institutet collaborate to advance drug discovery strategies

In an ongoing and open collaboration between iNovacia AB, GE Healthcare, Sweden and scientists at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB) at Karolinska Institutet, the surface plasmon resonance and nuclear magnetic resonance techniques have been cross-validated as...

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2011-12-06

Further clinical support for ROR1 as a diagnostic tool and therapeutic target

Kancera co-founder and scientific adviser Professor Håkan Mellstedt has demonstrated a sustained presence of Kancera's ROR1 target over time in patients with non-progressive disease and also a significant increase of this putative tumor target in patients with progressive stages...

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