by Stacey Johnson | Mar 17, 2023
Toronto, Canada’s Tak Mak, OC, OOnt, FRS, FRSC, has won the prestigious Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research, valued at US$100,000. Dr. Mak, who has his lab at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (PMCC), is...
by Stacey Johnson | Mar 10, 2023
If you’ve watched the 1992 movie Lorenzo’s Oil, based on the true story of parents searching for a treatment for their son’s rare neurological disease, adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), then the real-life story of the Pirovolakis family might feel familiar. The Pirovolakis...
by Stacey Johnson | Jan 27, 2023
Last year saw the organizers behind Advanced Therapies Week (ATW) move the conference from Miami to Miami Beach to accommodate a larger audience. As the Covid-19 pandemic was still going strong in January 2022, making international travel more difficult, attendance...
by Cal Strode | Jan 12, 2023
The Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM) delivered its State of the Industry Briefing (#CGSOTI23) at Biotech Showcase, held January 9–11, 2023, in San Francisco, California. Tim Hunt, CEO, of the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM) kicked things off by...
by Cal Strode | Jan 5, 2023
In 2022, the UK’s Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (aka CGT Catapult) celebrated its tenth anniversary (congratulations!) marking 10 years of accelerating innovation in cell and gene therapies (CGTs) in the UK. Much like CCRM, CGT Catapult was established as an...
by Stacey Johnson | Dec 16, 2022
Back in 2014, Selena Gomez was diagnosed with lupus. The singer and actress has been public about getting chemotherapy to treat her condition, and her kidney transplant. The autoimmune disease causes the immune system to attack the body’s tissues and organs....
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