Aveo's Better Mousetraps for Cancer Drugs

 Aveo’s Better Mousetraps for Cancer Drugs

29 Jun 2007 08:52 AM CDT
Xconomy / Kendall Square / Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy
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BIOTECH, STARTUPS, DRUGS
Written by: David Stipp

Oncology researchers are fond of saying that if you’re a mouse with cancer, they’ve found drugs that can cure you. Scientists at Cambridge-based Aveo Pharmaceuticals have even better news: They’ve developed mice with tumors that don’t always respond well to anticancer drugs. That heralds an important advance because it means that cancers in Aveo’s bioengineered rodents act much as they do in people. As more realistic models for testing new drugs, the mice promise to speed the quest for potent, precision-targeted weapons against specific kinds of tumors.

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