Kindler also lured Neil Gibson, formerly chief scientific officer at biotech OSI Pharmaceuticals, to head oncology research, and Briggs Morrison, a former oncologist who made clinical trials run faster at Merck, to design drug studies.
Kindler also lured Neil Gibson, formerly chief scientific officer at biotech OSI Pharmaceuticals, to head oncology research, and Briggs Morrison, a former oncologist who made clinical trials run faster at Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ), to design drug studies.
Anna Git, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Oncology Dr Anna Git will use her For Women In Science Fellowship to support her research at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.
The research was presented to the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Orlando, Florida.
The research was led by Professor Richard Begent, head of oncology at the Royal Free Hospital.
"Kadcyla delivers the drug to the cancer site to shrink the tumor, slow disease progression and prolong survival, " said Dr. Richard Pazdur, director of the Office of Hematology and Oncology Products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in a statement.
Howard Scher, a veteran of prostate-cancer studies and chief of the genitourinary oncology service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer, agreed to run the research, which began in 2007.
"That is absolutely the case, " agrees Dr. Ann Partridge, clinical director of the Breast Oncology Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who also does research on improving health care communication.
The research appears in the April 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
The research was discussed Tuesday in a telephone news conference sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Oncology and two other cancer groups.
Yesterday, in an interview, Pfizer research chief John LaMattina predicted that Sutent would be the beginning of a big presence in oncology for the drug giant.
Conducting research in the areas of cardiovascular disease, central nervous system disorders, immunology and infectious disease, oncology, respiratory diseases and women's health, its best-selling products are Vytorin, Zetia, Remicade and Nasonex.
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