Published: Jun 03, 2021 By Alex Keown
180 Life Sciences Russell T. Ray and Teresa DeLuca were appointed to the board of directors of 180 Life Sciences. Ray was formerly Managing Director and co-Head of Global Health Care at Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation. More recently, Ray was a Partner and Senior Advisor to HLM Venture Partners, a health care-focused venture capital firm. He currently serves on the board of directors of Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. DeLuca comes to 180 Life Sciences as both a public independent board director and former senior executive Chief Medical Officer. Her most recent role was at Columbia University as Managing Director of NY Life Science Venture Fund.
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IMAGE: Kenneth Grossmann, MD, PhD, of Huntsman Cancer Institute, led the SWOG S1404 clinical trial, which found that patients with high-risk melanoma who had pembrolizumab after their surgery had a longer. view more
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PORTLAND, OR - Patients with high-risk melanoma who had a course of pembrolizumab after their surgery had a longer time before their disease recurred than patients who got either ipilimumab or high-dose interferon after surgery. These findings of a large SWOG Cancer Research Network clinical trial, S1404, will be presented at the ASCO annual meeting June 6, 2021.
Researchers also measured overall survival and found no statistically significant difference in overall survival rates between the two groups of patients three and one-half years after the last patient enrolled to the trial. They did find, however, that patients taking pembrolizumab had fewer serious side effects than those treated with either high-dose in
Appia Bio Launches With $52 Million Series A Financing and Establishes Scientific Advisory Board
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LOS ANGELES, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Appia Bio, Inc., an early stage biotechnology company developing engineered allogeneic cell therapies from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) for cancer patients, today announced its launch from stealth backed by $52 million Series A financing led by 8VC. Other investors included Two Sigma Ventures, among others, and participation from seed investors Sherpa Healthcare Partners and Freeflow Ventures.
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