Informatics News for April 2011

Informatics News Archive

Horizon Discovery and Fox Chase Cancer Center announce collaboration to apply rAAV gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem cells and research into EGFR-therapy resistance. Horizon Discovery and Fox Chase Cancer Center announce collaboration to apply rAAV gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem cells and research into EGFR-therapy resistance.

Horizon Discovery (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, has announced that it has entered into a 3-year collaboration with the Fox Chase Cancer Center (Fox Chase). The focus of the collaboration is to apply rAAV gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells, and for the discovery of genes involved in resistance to EGFR-targeted therapies in human cancer, such as PI3K.