MSKCC in the News: February 9 – February 23

 

  • ScienceInsider reported on a petition drafted by Robert Benezra at MSKCC that urges NIH to reconsider grant application rules that limits the number of times an applicant can submit a revised version of a grant application only once instead of twice.
  • Pharmaceutical Business Review recently announced a Phase 2 clinical trial sponsored by The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) evaluating the effectiveness of ADI-PEG 20 in the treatment of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) that will take place at MSKCC and Duke University Medical Center.
  • Dr. Scher of MSKCC announced at the fourth annual Genitourinary Cancers Symposium that an investigational drug called abiraterone acetate may help men with hard to treat prostate cancer.