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GSK Gives National Comprehensive Cancer Network $4 Milllion to Fund Academic Scientists Through Its Oncology Research Program
GSK Gives NCCN $4 Milllion to Fund Academic Scientists Through Its Oncology Research Program
S Haley
20100709
2010 Aug 9
The Pink Sheet Daily
GSK Gives National Comprehensive Cancer Network $4 Milllion to Fund Academic Scientists Through Its Oncology Research Program
The Pink Sheet Daily. 2010 Aug 9, S Haley
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an organization best known for its clinical practice guidelines and its compendium, has quietly made a name for itself as a facilitator of industry-funded academic research. The most recent participant in NCCN's Oncology Research Program is GlaxoSmithKline. The group announced July 27 that the U.K.-based pharma giant had granted the program $4 million with which to fund exploratory clinical research on two compounds: ofatumumab, approved as Arzerra to treat...