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Roche pulls a tumor micro-environment drug out of the freezer, hands it to a UK upstart

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  • cafead   Aug 12, 2020 at 10:52: AM
via Two years after pulling it from clinical development, Roche has handed control of a solid tumor cancer drug to a tiny Oxford University spinout.

For an undisclosed fee, Celleron Therapeutics acquired the drug, an anti-CSF1R antibody that’s designed to modulate the tumor micro-environment — an increasingly popular approach among cancer drug developers.

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