MD Anderson and the US National Cancer Institute lead the way with a series of recent alliances, highlighted in this special edition of Tech Transfer Roundup focused on oncology.

Private Company Edition: While the tough state of financing for publicly traded drug developers continues, venture capital firms and private biopharma companies revealed billions of dollars in new VC funds and start-up financings, including $100m-plus mega-rounds for Tessa, Alladapt and ImCheck.

Among the six new investigational products to make it onto the European Medicines Agency’s priority medicines scheme, five were gene therapies.

Announcement of the 14 July Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee meeting follows a successful, two-day trial run of the virtual format by the oncology pediatric subcommittee that featured a mix of prerecorded and live sponsor presentations and strict adherence to a call/response approach to ensure orderly conduct.