Dr Patti Gravitt, Deputy Director, Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute, in an interview with Scrip, discusses a range of strategies underway and proposed to strengthen cancer control efforts in the Asia Pacific. HPV vaccination and a regional cancer control dashboard are among the areas she highlighted.

Start-up hopes to bring its first candidate, an NY-ESO-1-targeting off-the-shelf product, into the clinic in Q2. Astex and Cardiff University team up on novel therapies for neurodegenerative disease.

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.

MD Anderson teams with Eisbach on precision oncology and with Yingli on a five-year translational research effort. Moffitt inks tie-ups with Dyve and Turnstone.