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Cancer immunotherapies can save lives, yet their side effect — cytokine release syndrome (CRS) — remains a barrier for wider use, even though IL 6 receptor antagonists can treat it. Now the UK company Poolbeg Pharma plc, together with Johnson & Johnson, investigates how CRS might be prevented. The programme is backed by a £3.4m grant from the MRC.

Multiple factors determine whether tumor cells will be eliminated by the immune system or will escape detection.© wikimedia.com/By Frontiers in Oncology - http://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/51138/fonc-03-00197-HTML/image_m/fonc-03-00197-g001.jpg, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33585764

Bergen-based Cytovation ASA has raised US$8m in a Series A extension round to push its cancer compound CyPep-1 into Phase II clinical testing.

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