Biovica initiates a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to study DiviTum[®] for the on-treatment monitoring of metastatic breast cancer patients receiving CDK 4/6 inhibitors
Biovica and Mayo Clinic have entered into an agreement to study the clinical benefit of using DiviTum[®] as a blood-based test, monitoring the tumor response to therapy in patients with metastatic breast cancer.The main purpose of including DiviTum[®] in studies performed at Mayo Clinic is to evaluate the changes in serum thymidine kinase activity, measured by DiviTum[®], in patients with hormone positive metastatic breast cancer treated with today’s standard regimens – including CDK 4/6 inhibitors. DiviTum[® ]measurements at the start of therapy and during treatment will be correlated to
Uppsala, Sweden, March 25, 2020. Biovica, active in cancer diagnostics, today announced that Robert Dann is joining the organization as SVP Marketing and US Business and will be part of the management team. The appointment marks a significant milestone in the upcoming commercialization of DiviTum[®] on the US market.“As DiviTum[®] is approaching commercialization we are strengthening the team. Robert brings insights from cancer diagnostics as well as therapeutics and has an excellent track record of successful product launches which will be valuable when launching DiviTum[®]. The
Uppsala, Sweden, March 12, 2020. Biovica, active in cancer diagnostics, today announced that results from a study by researchers at Lund University have been published in the well renowned journal Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature. The results support that the blood test DiviTum can be used as a prognostic tool for evaluating treatment outcomes in metastatic breast cancer.The study evaluated thymidine kinase activity in 142 women with newly diagnosed metastatic breast cancer as a tool for first-line prognosis and monitoring. Activity was measured by Biovica's DiviTum test at
Uppsala, Sweden, March 10, 2020. Biovica, active in cancer diagnostics, today announced that the company intends to submit an FDA application for market approval of DiviTum in the third quarter of 2020 and not as previously announced in mid-2020.“We are pleased with our results in the analytical validation, which is part of our FDA application and so far meet the criteria we have set. However, a component supplier has had delivery delays which means that we now anticipate being able to submit the FDA application a little later than previously expected,” said Anders Rylander, CEO of Biovica.
Biovica, active in cancer diagnostics, today announced that the scientific journal Clinical Cancer Research has published data from the TREnd study, demonstrating the benefits of using DiviTum® when evaluating palbociclib treatment outcome in women with metastatic breast cancer.“We are very pleased that these results, which were initially presented at the AACR annual meeting 2019, are published in the renowned journal Clinical Cancer Research. The data shows that DiviTum® can be used to evaluate the treatment efficacy of a CDK 4/6 inhibitor in metastatic breast cancer.” said Anders Rylander,
Biovica, active in cancer diagnostics, today announced that Henrik Winther was appointed SVP Business Development and will be part of the management team. He most recently comes from the role of SVP Precision Diagnostics at Immunovia.“Henrik possesses a rare combination of scientific expertise and commercial experience. With his many years of diagnostics background, he brings with him tremendous insight and an extensive network of contacts. Henrik is an important piece of the puzzle in Biovica's continued market expansion,” said Anders Rylander, CEO of Biovica.
Winther has previously
“The results from two additional studies with DiviTum® will be presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, the world's largest scientific conference on breast cancer”.- Anders Rylander, CEO of BiovicaPeriod: May-October 2019/2020
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Uppsala, Sweden, November 20, 2019. Biovica, active in cancer biomarkers, today announced clinical data that demonstrate DiviTum as a strong prognostic marker in operable breast cancer. The results will be presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, SABCS, December 10-14, 2019, the world´s largest scientific congress focusing on breast cancer.The study is a retrospective analysis on serum samples from a randomized clinical trial comprising 644 women with operable breast cancer (premenopausal with stage II-IIIB HR+ breast cancer). Serum samples were collected pre-operatively on the
Uppsala, Sweden, November 20, 2019. Biovica, active in cancer biomarkers, today announced that clinical data – demonstrating that DiviTum can be used as a dynamic, non-invasive biomarker for metastatic breast cancer patients treated with endocrine therapy and palbociclib – will be presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 10-14, 2019, the world´s largest scientific congress focusing on breast cancer.The prognostic value of DiviTum was assessed in a prospective study of 103 metastatic breast cancer patients treated from May 2016 until August 2018 at Institut Curie, Paris,