Stay updated with breaking news from Keith Flaherty. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Multiple successor trials are in the works based on hits, misses and overall knowledge gained from one of the first precision medicine platform trials.
Bostonâs hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions - some paying millions of dollars - raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities. By Liz Kowalczyk, Spotlight fellow Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault and Spotlight editor Patricia Wen Globe Staff and Globe Staff,Updated April 3, 2021, 4:54 p.m. Email to a Friend Globe Staff/Photo Illustration by Globe Staff As chief of Boston Childrenâs Hospital, o...
E-Mail A test that monitors blood levels of DNA fragments released by dying tumor cells may serve as an accurate early indicator of treatment success in people in late stages of one of the most aggressive forms of skin cancer, a new study finds. Led by NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Perlmutter Cancer Center researchers, the investigation looked at adults with undetectable levels of freely circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) four weeks into drug treatment for metastatic melanoma tumors that cannot be removed surgically (unresectable). The study showed that these patients, all of whom had com...
With biotech funding at âall-time high,â Scorpion scoops up $162 million By Anissa Gardizy Globe Staff,Updated January 7, 2021, 7:00 a.m. Email to a Friend Just over two months after announcing its debut with $108 million in funding, Boston startup Scorpion Therapeutics said Thursday it has raised an even larger amount of venture capital. Scorpion, which focuses on âprecision medicineâ for cancer, said it has completed a $162 million funding round, bringing the biotechâs total venture haul to about $270 million. Itâs a large amount for a new company that so far h...
Wicked Local A two-alarm fire broke out in a three-story apartment building in Packard's Corner on the Allston line Monday evening, Dec. 28, displacing about 30 Brookline residents and filling the sky with black smoke. The Brookline and Boston fire departments responded to the multi-unit apartment building at 16 Hamilton Road shortly after 4 p.m., according to Brookline Fire Department Chief of Operations Keith Flaherty. There, the firefighters found heavy fire conditions on the building's third floor and quickly worked to put out the fire, which extended from the right side of the building...