Catherine Shaffer

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Personalized Neoantigen Vaccine Shows Feasibility but Limited Efficacy in MSS Colorectal Cancer
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Researchers at AACR's annual meeting said they hope the vaccine will show stronger efficacy in patients with minimal residual disease.
The model combines estimates of skeletal muscle with routinely collected clinical data and unstructured notes and predicts the individual likelihood of cachexia.
Biotech firms are engineering smarter, safer gene delivery systems to enhance the safety and efficacy of genetic medicines.

The subcutaneous Perjeta-Herceptin formulation, Phesgo, was a top driver of sales growth in the first quarter of 2025.
Amid an 18 percent increase in cancer drug sales, J&J executives shared hopes that recent overall survival data for the drug combo will be practice changing.
With an arsenal of antibody assets based on IgE, IgA, and IgG, the newly combined company has opportunities across cancer indications.
The firms hope to show that Verdi's off-the-shelf peptide cancer vaccine can shrink tumors and improve quality of life in patients with bone metastases.
Early clinical results suggest the firm's antibodies targeting the Vβ T-cell receptor could induce strong and durable responses in cancer patients.

AI models trained on optical coherence tomography scans to detect eye diseases are showing promise in diagnosing heart disease, stroke, and dementia.

The firm's LLM-based platform abstracted complex information from medical charts with up to 100 percent accuracy in a pilot study of breast cancer patients.