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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Verastem Oncology (Nasdaq: VSTM), a biopharmaceutical company committed to advancing new medicines for patients with RAS/MAPK pathway-driven cancers, today announced multiple abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting to be held April 17-22, 2026, in San Diego, CA. “Preclinical data accepted for presentation at the AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research: RAS Oncogenesis and Therapeutics and the...

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stoke Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: STOK) is a biotechnology company dedicated to restoring protein expression by harnessing the body’s potential with RNA medicine and has a lead investigational medicine, zorevunersen, in development as a first-in-class potential disease-modifying treatment for Dravet syndrome. The Company today announced that, effective on March 16, 2026, it granted stock options to purchase an aggregate of 58,650 shares of common stock to six ne...

HAYWARD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aarvik will present two posters and a minisymposium talk showcasing ADCs from Aarvik’s MUTTA™ and AQUALINK™ platforms at the AACR Annual Meeting 2026....

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Verastem Oncology (Nasdaq: VSTM), a biopharmaceutical company committed to advancing new medicines for patients with RAS/MAPK pathway-driven cancers, today announced it will present new long-term AVMAPKI™ FAKZYNJA™ combination therapy (avutometinib capsules; defactinib tablets) data from the Phase 2 RAMP 201 clinical trial at the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) 2026 Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancers. Additional abstracts accepted for presentation will also be shar...

LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Agenus Inc. (Nasdaq: AGEN), a leader in immuno-oncology, today announced that preliminary results from an investigator-sponsored study evaluating botensilimab (BOT) in combination with balstilimab (BAL) in first-line microsatellite stable colorectal cancer (MSS CRC) will be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2026, taking place April 18–23 in San Diego, CA. The BBoPCO study (Botensilimab and Balstilimab Optimization...

SHANGHAI & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zai Lab Limited (NASDAQ: ZLAB; HKEX: 9688) today announced three of the Company’s internally-developed investigational oncology therapies will be presented across four poster sessions at the upcoming American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2026 taking place April 17-22 in San Diego, California. These next-generation candidates include: zocilurtatug pelitecan (zoci, formerly ZL-1310), a DLL3-targeting antibody-drug conjugate (A...

EL MONTE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fulgent Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLGT) (“Fulgent”), a technology-based company with a well-established laboratory services business and a therapeutic development business, today announced the completion of the acquisition of Bako Diagnostics, a premier pathology laboratory, and StrataDx, a premier dermatopathology laboratory, as previously announced on December 22, 2025. Under the terms of the agreement, Fulgent acquired certain assets of Bako Diagnostics and a...

BOSTON & DAEJEON, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orum Therapeutics to Present New Preclinical Data on ORM-1153, a CD123-Targeting Degrader Antibody Conjugate, at the AACR Annual Meeting 2026...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SingleCell Biotechnology, a biotechnology company developing technologies to measure tumor cell behavior at single-cell resolution, today announced that data from its platform will be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2026, to be held in San Diego, April 17-21, 2026. Relapse remains one of the most persistent challenges in oncology. While many therapies successfully reduce tumor size, a subset of tumor cells can survive trea...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Onchilles Pharma to Present New Preclinical Data on Systemically Delivered NEU-002 Program at AACR 2026...