David earned a PhD in Biological Sciences from Columbia University in New York, NY, where he studied how Drosophila ovarian adult stem cells respond to cell signaling pathway manipulations. This work helped to redefine the organizational principles underlying adult stem cell growth models. He is currently a Science Writer, as part of the BioNews Services writing team.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track status to PC14586, PMV Pharmaceuticals’ lead therapeutic candidate for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic solid ... Read more
TTC-352, an investigational oral treatment for patients with metastatic ER-positive breast cancer that no longer responds to hormone therapy, was found to be safe and tolerable at high dose in ... Read more
ProFound AI Risk, a diagnostic tool that estimates the risk of breast cancer over a two-year period following a mammogram, has received a CE mark from the European Commission. The CE mark ... Read more
A diet high in total fiber appears to lower the risk of breast cancer for both pre- and postmenopausal women, researchers who pooled data from 20 observational studies reported. This association was ... Read more
Ontruzant (trastuzumab-dttb), a biosimilar to Genentech‘s Herceptin (trastuzumab), will now be made available in the U.S. as a treatment for HER2-overexpressing breast cancers as well as for stomach cancers, according to a ... Read more
GlycoMimetics announced that the first patient with advanced breast cancer has been dosed in a Phase 1b clinical trial investigating the ability of its small molecule inhibitor, GMI-1359, to stop breast ... Read more
A combination of the immune checkpoint inhibitor Keytruda (pembrolizumab) and the melanoma therapy Mektovi (binimetinib) is safe and well-tolerated by people with advanced triple negative breast cancer, preliminary findings from ... Read more
Zymeworks announced the start of a Phase 2 trial examining its experimental cancer treatment ZW25, in combination with Pfizer’s CDK4/6 inhibitor Ibrance (palbociclib) and the hormone therapy Faslodex (fulvestrant), in ... Read more
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