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Novocure and Stanford School of Medicine to Establish Tumor Treating Fields Research Program
ROOT, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Novocure (NASDAQ: NVCR) today announced it has entered into an agreement with Stanford University to establish the
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[{"type":"text","content":" ROOT, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nNovocure (NASDAQ: NVCR) today announced it has entered into an agreement with Stanford University to establish the Stanford School of Medicine Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) Research Program. The program is intended to support both preclinical studies and clinical trials with TTFields, electric fields that exert physical forces to kill cancer cells via a variety of mechanisms.\n\n\n“We look forward to collaborating with Stanford Medicine to establish a research framework for preclinical and clinical development of TTFields,” said Moshe Giladi, Ph.D., Novocure’s Chief Science Officer. “Together, we will enable new discoveries into the mechanisms and treatment possibilities of TTFields, including new indications and uses of TTFields along with other therapies. We will pursue our mission to extend survival in some of the most aggressive forms of cancer while enhancing the education and scholarship of future clinicians and scientists.”\n\n\nTo enable novel preclinical research, Novocure will provide Stanford Medicine investigators with its portfolio of proprietary inovitro™, inovitro Live™ and inovivo™ TTFields preclinical systems which allows for exploring a vast range of research questions, starting from the fundamental physical mode of action all the way to most complex systemic biological outcomes. In addition, Novocure will provide devices for clinical studies.\n\n\nAt present, Stanford Medicine is a site for four clinical studies of TTFields therapy. This includes TRIDENT, a Novocure-sponsored multi-center study of TTFields therapy given concomitantly with radiation therapy and temozolomide in newly diagnosed glioblastoma (GBM) patients, in which Stanford University Cancer Institute is one of 132 participating study centers. Investigator-sponsored trials at Stanford include multiple investigational uses, including a study of TTFields therapy for children with high-grade glioma or ependymoma and TTFields therapy for children with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a study of TTFields therapy with hypofractionated chemoradiotherapy in newly diagnosed GBM, and a study of TTFields therapy with bevacizumab in treating patients with recurrent or progressive Grade 2 or 3 meningioma.\n\n\nIn addition, Stanford is home to a preclinical study of the efficacy of TTFields in medulloblastoma.\n\n\n“W...