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7 April 2021
CONTACTS:
Asian Fund for Cancer Research
Bradley Gillenwater, Senior Director for Corporate Engagement
E-mail: bgillenwater@afcr.org
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Working with our strategic partners, the National Foundation for Cancer Research and AIM-HI Accelerator Fund (AIM-HI), AFCR have launched the inaugural Women’s Venture Competition in 2020.
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Privo Technologies, Inc. is focused on changing the oncology treatment paradigm with its Programmed Release Vehicle (PRV) technology.
Innovation: Therapeutics – anticancer system capable of loco-regional delivery of drug product
Targeted Cancer(s): Solid Tumors, Mucosal Cancers. Initial indication: Oral Cancer
Scientific Leadership/Leadership: Manijeh Goldberg, PhD., President & CEO; James Mackay, PhD., Board Member and Chief Advisor; Nishant Agrawal, MD., Chief Medical Advisor
Stage…
A fast vaccination will push the world entering the stage of herd immunity, namely enough population will have gained immune protection against the COVID-19 virus and the infection will no longer be able to spread easily.
Unlike healthy people, cancer patients need to…
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