Press

2011-10-13

iNovacia AB has developed active compounds as a step towards  treatment of a serious parasitic disease

iNovacia, an internationally established contract research company owned by Kancera AB (Nasdaq OMX Stockholm First North, KAN), announces today that highly potent inhibitors of a target protein in the parasite Schistosoma have been developed. This parasite infects annually...

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2011-10-07

Kancera has filed patent for new active substances against cancer

Kancera reports that the company has registered an international patent application (PCT/EP2011/066250) for a new class of compounds targeting the energy metabolism of cancer cells. This new class of synthetic molecules inhibits the target protein PFKFB3. Inhibition of this...

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2011-09-30

Breakthrough for the Kancera ROR Technology Against Incurable Cancer

Kancera has in collaboration with scientists at the Karolinska Institute identified active compounds that effectively kill pancreatic cancer cells. Annually over 100 000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in Europe and the US. Ratio of survival, five years...

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2011-07-06

Kancera’s ROR Technology to Attack Solid Tumors

At a cancer seminar in Båstad tomorrow, July 7, Professor Håkan Mellstedt will present the basis for further development of Kancera's ROR technology for the purpose of attacking solid tumors that are hard to treat. Kancera has already reported...

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2011-06-28

iNovacia Further Develops its Compound Collection

iNovacia, the drug discovery service provider and subsidiary of Kancera AB (Nasdaq OMX Stockholm First North, KAN), today announced the addition of over 20,000 novel compounds to its small-molecule screening collection. This is in line with the continuous development...

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2011-05-09

Kancera enters collaboration with investigators at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA, to battle aggressive cancer

In line with Kancera's strategy for the development of new therapies towards cancer, the company enters collaboration with Professor Mary Hendrix and her research group at The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of...

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2011-03-02

ADDITIONAL INDICATIONS FOR KANCERA LEUKEMIA PROJECT

ROR-1, target for the Kancera treatment for chronic lymphatic leukemia, has been identified on the surface of eight additional blood cancers. Accordingly, medical use of the Kancera candidate drug under development may be expanded within the frames of current...

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2011-02-18

Kancera acquires iNovacia

Kancera AB (publ) announces that the acquisition of iNovacia AB has been implemented

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2011-01-18

Kancera announces successful results in structure-based design of candidate molecules against cancer

Kancera AB has in collaboration with Sprint Bioscience AB, Stockholm, solved the 3- dimensional crystal structure of a novel chemical class in complex with the target enzyme PFKFB3, by conducting experiments at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble....

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2011-01-14

Kancera makes significant progress in pre-clinical drug development against Chronic Leukemia

Kancera AB has discovered compounds that kill Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) 25 times more selectively than cytostatic drugs currently used for treating the disease.

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