Showing posts with label targeted failure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label targeted failure. Show all posts

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Self motivation

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Targeted failure of the week. Kadcyla. When rocket science medicine fails...

Oct 22 (Reuters) - ImmunoGen Inc said the gastric cancer drug it is developing with Roche Holding AG did not meet the main goal in a large study. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/immunogen-roche-gastric-cancer-drug-121659032.html

Trastuzumab emtansine ( ado-trastuzumab emtansine, trade name Kadcyla) is an antibody-drug conjugate consisting of the monoclonal antibody trastuzumab (Herceptin) linked to the cytotoxic agent DM1.
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This drug is a real rocket science approach. And it failed...

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Ukraine must be free!

Really small and early-stage?

By replacing a single hydrogen atom with deuterium in a 3-year-old cystic fibrosis drug developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Lexington-based Concert Pharmaceuticals says it was able to show the altered version works better in a small, early-stage clinical trial.

http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/bioflash/2015/09/concert-shares-soar-as-it-bests-vertex-cystic.html?ana=Yahoo