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Northwest Bio gets $40M more for controversial brain cancer vaccine
Back in November, U.K. heavyweight investor Neil Woodford invested $25 million in Northwest Biotherapeutics in the hope that its brain cancer candidate would turn up good Phase III results. Now, Woodford has thrown another $40 million behind the Bethesda, MD-based biotech as it continues to work through Phase III.
Woodford pours another $40M into Northwest Bio and its brain cancer vaccine
High-profile U.K. investor Neil Woodford is putting more chips on the controversial Northwest Biotherapeutics, betting another $40 million on the company as it works through Phase III with a cancer vaccine.
U.K. heavyweight Woodford gambles $25M on controversial brain cancer vaccine
U.K. biotech investment heavyweight Neil Woodford has invested $25 million in the U.S. biotech Northwest Biotherapeutics, gambling that its controversial Phase III study on a new therapeutic vaccine for brain cancer comes up a winner.
U.K. picks a controversial brain cancer vaccine as its first new 'innovative medicine'
Anxious to prove that U.K. drug regulators aren't as slow and stodgy as they're often accused of being, British officials today announced the first in a new category of experimental drugs to earn the title of "Promising Innovative Medicine."
The top 15 late-stage blockbusters in the pipeline
In recent years it's been the big biotechs in the U.S. which have registered approvals for the drugs most likely to succeed on the market. But in reviewing EvaluatePharma's recent picks for top Phase III drugs, it's interesting to see some prominent positions among the Big Pharma crowd. Read the full report >>
Northwest Bio begins German vax trial as glioblastoma market poised to double
With the expected launch of Northwest Biotherapeutics' dendritic cell-based therapeutic vaccine DCVax-L, the glioblastoma multiforme drug market is expected to grow rapidly, from $305 million in 2012 to $583 million in 2019, according to market research.
ASCO preview: What's the outlook for cancer vaccines?
The cancer vaccine field has seen its share of late-stage disappointments and outright flops, but a number of hopefuls are lining up to present new research backing their experimental shots at this year's upcoming American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Northwest Bio, NewLink proceed with cancer vax trials to mixed reviews
A pair of biotechs will proceed with cancer vaccine studies thanks to recent recommendations from data-monitoring committees. Their announcements drew mixed results from investors, with Northwest Biotherapeutics' shares soaring and NewLink Genetics' sinking. But as they forge ahead, both companies will have to shake off the looming specters of failed cancer vaccine trials past.
Northwest Bio touts a chance to start selling its controversial brain cancer vaccine
Northwest Biotherapeutics announced that German health regulators have OK'd a special hospital exemption that allows the sale of its controversial--and unproven--dendritic vaccine for brain cancer for all glioma brain cancers.
Northwest Bio shoots for dendritic success where others have failed
Bethesda, MD's Northwest Biotherapeutics has watched as rivals Dendreon and ImmunoCellular have run into serious roadblocks with personalized cancer vaccines over the past year, but with a major Phase III study underway, the biotech believes it can change the narrative.
