Brenda Reynolds, ©iQur
The BIA has added three new members to the Board of Directors. Calchan CEO Brenda Reynolds (pictured), Immunocore Chief Business Officer Eva-Lotta Allan and Polar Capital’s Partner – Healthcare Dan Mahony will join the board of the British BioIndustry Association from January 2017.
Researcher at Martinsried-headquarters of Medigene, © Medigene

Until mid-October, cancer immunotherapy play Medigene AG was a pure drug developer. With a potential US$1bn TCR-contract manufacturing deal with Bluebird Bio, it widened its business focus. Now, the company presented a process that delivers neospecific anti-tumour TCRs.

Mortality and population size of inflamed and non-inflamed tumour subtypes, x-axis: relative tumour mutation frequency (from low [left] to high [right]; © Roche; 
PAnC: Pancreatic cancer, AML: Acute myelogenous leukaemia; CLL: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; RCC: Renal cell carcinoma; GBM: Glioblastoma multiforme; CRC: colorectal carcinoma; OvCa: Ovarial carcinoma; SCCHN: Squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck; TNBC: Triple-negative breast cancer; NHL: Non-Hodgkin lymphoma; GC: Gastric cancer, UBC: Urothelial bladder cancer; NSCLC: Non-small cell lung cancer

Swiss cancer meds world market leader Roche intensifies its focus on translational research to broaden the scope of cancer immunotherapies. 

Mortality and population size of inflamed and non-inflamed tumour subtypes, x-axis: relative tumour mutation frequency (from low [left] to high [right]; © Roche; 
PAnC: Pancreatic cancer, AML: Acute myelogenous leukaemia; CLL: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; RCC: Renal cell carcinoma; GBM: Glioblastoma multiforme; CRC: colorectal carcinoma; OvCa: Ovarial carcinoma; SCCHN: Squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck; TNBC: Triple-negative breast cancer; NHL: Non-Hodgkin lymphoma; GC: Gastric cancer, UBC: Urothelial bladder cancer; NSCLC: Non-small cell lung cancer

Swiss cancer meds world market leader Roche intensifies its focus on translational research to broaden the scope of cancer immunotherapies. 

Mortality and population size of inflamed and non-inflamed tumour subtypes, x-axis: relative tumour mutation frequency (from low [left] to high [right]; © Roche; 
PAnC: Pancreatic cancer, AML: Acute myelogenous leukaemia; CLL: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; RCC: Renal cell carcinoma; GBM: Glioblastoma multiforme; CRC: colorectal carcinoma; OvCa: Ovarial carcinoma; SCCHN: Squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck; TNBC: Triple-negative breast cancer; NHL: Non-Hodgkin lymphoma; GC: Gastric cancer, UBC: Urothelial bladder cancer; NSCLC: Non-small cell lung cancer

Swiss cancer meds world market leader Roche intensifies its focus on translational research to broaden the scope of cancer immunotherapies. 

Mortality and population size of inflamed and non-inflamed tumour subtypes, x-axis: relative tumour mutation frequency (from low [left] to high [right]; © Roche; 
PAnC: Pancreatic cancer, AML: Acute myelogenous leukaemia; CLL: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; RCC: Renal cell carcinoma; GBM: Glioblastoma multiforme; CRC: colorectal carcinoma; OvCa: Ovarial carcinoma; SCCHN: Squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck; TNBC: Triple-negative breast cancer; NHL: Non-Hodgkin lymphoma; GC: Gastric cancer, UBC: Urothelial bladder cancer; NSCLC: Non-small cell lung cancer

Swiss cancer meds world market leader Roche intensifies its focus on translational research to broaden the scope of cancer immunotherapies. 

Mortality and population size of inflamed and non-inflamed tumour subtypes, x-axis: relative tumour mutation frequency (from low [left] to high [right]; © Roche; 
PAnC: Pancreatic cancer, AML: Acute myelogenous leukaemia; CLL: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; RCC: Renal cell carcinoma; GBM: Glioblastoma multiforme; CRC: colorectal carcinoma; OvCa: Ovarial carcinoma; SCCHN: Squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck; TNBC: Triple-negative breast cancer; NHL: Non-Hodgkin lymphoma; GC: Gastric cancer, UBC: Urothelial bladder cancer; NSCLC: Non-small cell lung cancer

Swiss cancer meds world market leader Roche intensifies its focus on translational research to broaden the scope of cancer immunotherapies. 

Mortality and population size of inflamed and non-inflamed tumour subtypes, x-axis: relative tumour mutation frequency (from low [left] to high [right]; © Roche; 
PAnC: Pancreatic cancer, AML: Acute myelogenous leukaemia; CLL: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; RCC: Renal cell carcinoma; GBM: Glioblastoma multiforme; CRC: colorectal carcinoma; OvCa: Ovarial carcinoma; SCCHN: Squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck; TNBC: Triple-negative breast cancer; NHL: Non-Hodgkin lymphoma; GC: Gastric cancer, UBC: Urothelial bladder cancer; NSCLC: Non-small cell lung cancer

Swiss cancer meds world market leader Roche intensifies its focus on translational research to broaden the scope of cancer immunotherapies. 

Mortality and population size of inflamed and non-inflamed tumour subtypes, x-axis: relative tumour mutation frequency (from low [left] to high [right]; © Roche; 
PAnC: Pancreatic cancer, AML: Acute myelogenous leukaemia; CLL: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; RCC: Renal cell carcinoma; GBM: Glioblastoma multiforme; CRC: colorectal carcinoma; OvCa: Ovarial carcinoma; SCCHN: Squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck; TNBC: Triple-negative breast cancer; NHL: Non-Hodgkin lymphoma; GC: Gastric cancer, UBC: Urothelial bladder cancer; NSCLC: Non-small cell lung cancer

Swiss cancer meds world market leader Roche intensifies its focus on translational research to broaden the scope of cancer immunotherapies. 

Mortality and population size of inflamed and non-inflamed tumour subtypes, x-axis: relative tumour mutation frequency (from low [left] to high [right]; © Roche; 
PAnC: Pancreatic cancer, AML: Acute myelogenous leukaemia; CLL: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; RCC: Renal cell carcinoma; GBM: Glioblastoma multiforme; CRC: colorectal carcinoma; OvCa: Ovarial carcinoma; SCCHN: Squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck; TNBC: Triple-negative breast cancer; NHL: Non-Hodgkin lymphoma; GC: Gastric cancer, UBC: Urothelial bladder cancer; NSCLC: Non-small cell lung cancer

Swiss cancer meds world market leader Roche intensifies its focus on translational research to broaden the scope of cancer immunotherapies.