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FDA Grants Orphan Drug Status for Personalized Lymphoma Vaccine. Jan 7, 2010 - Biovest International, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to BiovaxID, Biovest’s personalized lymphoma vaccine. BiovaxID represents a new class of active immunotherapy and is one of the few select late-stage patient-specific cancer vaccines vying to be among the first to reach market. The details can be read here. …

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Many other grants involve biological research unlikely to break new ground. For example, one project asks whether a laboratory discovery involving colon cancer also applies to breast cancer . But even if it does apply, there is no treatment yet that …. Four types of sarcomas cancers of fat, muscle or bone are growing in them and look genetically identical to the tumors removed from patients. Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, former director of the National Institutes of Health, …

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Grant System Leads Cancer Researchers to Play It Safe Ovarian …