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Study results from National Institutes of Health provide new insights into life sciences

Published in Medical Device Business Week, December 5th, 2007

Fresh data on life sciences are presented in the report 'Development of radioimmunotherapeutic and diagnostic antibodies: an inside-out view.' "Only a handful of radiolabeled antibodies (Abs) have gained US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for use in clinical oncology, including four immunodiagnostic agents and two targeted radioimmunotherapeutic agents. Despite the advent of nonimmunogenic Abs and the availability of a diverse library of radionuclides, progress beyond early Phase II radioimmunotherapy (RIT) studies in solid tumors has been marginal," scientists in the United States report.

"Furthermore, [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose continues to dominate the...

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