by Stacey Johnson | Feb 23, 2024
As a fair-skinned, freckled person (my mom says she painted them on me while I slept), and one who has a family history of skin cancers and melanoma, the news on February 19 that Iovance Biotherapeutics’ AMTAGVITM received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
by Stacey Johnson | Dec 29, 2023
It’s been a busy year in the cell and gene therapy community and the bloggers at Signals have enjoyed putting the spotlight on news (HeLa settlement and UK rejoins Horizon Europe), scientific advances (improving treatment for hematological malignancies and a new...
by Cal Strode | Jul 12, 2023
In 2017, Signals’ blog carnival focused on Right to Try (RTT) legislation – laws that allow patients with life-threatening conditions to ask drugmakers for medicines that have cleared some testing hurdles, but still haven’t been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug...
by Stacey Johnson | Jun 16, 2023
The definition of a rare disease in the U.S. is under 200,000 patients. The 10 per cent of Americans living with a rare disease is equivalent to 30 million people. Put another way, that is close to the entire population of Canada (at 39 million). There are 7,000 –...
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