Published: May 11, 2021
WEST CHESTER, Pa. (BUSINESS WIRE) Molecular Targeting Technologies, Inc. (MTTI) and University of Antwerp today announced the approval of a Clinical Trial Application by the European Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP) (equivalent to a US IND). The clinical study will evaluate the safety, dosimetry and treatment response of TDURA (
99mTc-Duramycin), in patients with advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) .
Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed malignancy in the world and the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. While a range of novel active agents has improved the prognosis of patients with colorectal cancer, 50% of advanced colorectal cancer patients die from metastatic disease.
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May 10, 2021 5:57 pm
“Climate justice must not stop at borders” NGOs have told the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), in what has been labelled a “landmark case”.
As the ECHR considers the case on climate change, which has been brought by six young people from Portugal against 33 European countries including Ireland, Amnesty International and other human rights organisations and academics have provided the court with legal arguments “on how government climate policies must protect the rights of people outside their borders”.
‘Climate crisis does not respect borders’
Ashfaq Khalfan, Amnesty’s law and policy director said that the climate crisis “does not respect borders and our laws and policies must reflect this”.
LIVE EVENT - Democratic Erosion and Academic Freedom: Hungary, India, Turkey and Beyond (13 May)
Democratic Erosion and Academic Freedom
Hungary, India, Turkey and Beyond
Thursday, 13 May 2021
12:00 PM CDT
Co-sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), the Chicago Center on Democracy, the University of Chicago s Department of Political Science, and the Arab Studies Institute
Widespread democratic backsliding is raising alarm bells about the future of academic freedom in democratic and autocratic regimes. Such fears are not unwarranted. Institutions of higher education suffer from systemic and multi-faceted attacks across the globe. Transgressions on university autonomy, restrictions on research and curriculum, widespread neoliberal transformation of funding structures, and attacks on the life and liberty of academics themselves demonstrate the extensiveness of the arsenal employed by a multitude of governments. Are the recent attacks on academic freedom spill
Science Oasis in Africa Seeks Promising Malaria Vaccine – 05/09/2021 – Balance and Health
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Science’s greatest hope of overcoming one of the diseases that most afflict poor regions of the planet comes from a country normally associated with poverty and political instability.
Without access to the sea and on the southern border of the Sahara, Burkina Faso in West Africa is consistently represented in the ranking of the ten least developed countries in the world. In the most recent edition of the UN Human Development Index in 2020, it was the seventh worst position among 189 nations polled.
In a country with a literacy rate of only 41%, an oasis developing the latest science was a key player in the release of the most promising malaria vaccine ever tested.