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AstraZeneca, ArcherDx Partner on Minimal Residual Disease Monitoring for Lung Cancer Drug Trials
ArcherDx will develop sequencing-based circulating tumor DNA assays for use in AstraZeneca's recently launched Phase III MERMAID-1 trial of durvalumab (Imfinzi).
The researchers envisage deploying a point-of-care assay based on a fluorescent nanophotonics platform.
The number of technologies to be assessed is vast, and ranges from liquid biopsies and molecular imaging to immunohistochemistry and RNA-seq.
Cancer Research UK, Partners Announce New Alliance for Early Cancer Detection
CRUK will invest £40 million over the next five years to support the alliance, while US partners will invest $20 million to support research projects and infrastructure.
Led by investigators at the University of Trento in Italy, the team received a five-year, £5 million ($6.4 million) award recently to advance its work.