Drug Firms Team Up on Cancer Trials


A handful of pharmaceutical companies, including biotech giant Amgen, are joining together to test cocktails of their latest cancer drugs in an ambitious initiative aimed at rapidly developing new treatments -- but one that's gotten off to a shaky start. Cancer MoonShot 2020 was announced Monday by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a billionaire Los Angeles oncologist who is spearheading the program, at a healthcare investor conference in San Francisco.



from Biotech News