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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Establishes David Liposarcoma Research Initiative
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute announced that The Rossy Foundation has committed $10 million to establish the David Liposarcoma Research Initiative. The five-year initiative will spearhead groundbreaking research into liposarcoma at Dana-Farber and external collaborating partner institutions, with the aim of transforming the treatment of this rare, underfunded, and understudied disease in order to improve care of patients through research.
This commitment from The Rossy Foundation will focus on collaborative research among various departments at Dana-Farber-including liposarcoma biology, biochemistry, immunology, metabolism, genomics, and epigenetics. By conducting research to improve fundamental understanding of the molecular mechanisms of this disease, the initiative may lead to new approaches to overcome treatment resistance, as well as new strategies for clinical research to improve the outc
Published: Jun 09, 2021 By Mark Terry
Kojin Therapeutics
launched with a $60 million Series A to initially focus on oncology and cell state biology. The round was led by Polaris Partners, Newpath Partners, and Cathay Health, affiliated to Cathay Capital. Participants included Leaps by Bayer, AbbVie, Eventide Asset Management, Alexandria, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Binney Street Capital, and several family offices.
The approach came out of the
laboratoryof Stuart Schreiber, Harvard University professor and co-founder of the Broad Institute. Co-founders of Kojin include Benjamin Cravatt, Stephanie Dougan and Vasanthi Viswanathan. The company’s technology is ferroptosis-based drug discovery, which is to say, iron-dependent cell death. Kojin says that difficult-to-treat diseases, which includes drug-resistant cancers, involve diseased cells that are sensitive to ferroptosis.
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