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Article: Cyclis completes cancer licensing agreement with Beth Israel.(Cyclis Pharmaceuticals Inc., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)
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- BIOTECH Patent News
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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Cyclis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Norwood, MA), a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing novel cancer therapeutics, has licensed exclusive worldwide rights to broad technology from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The licensed technology significantly expands the company's Activated Checkpoint Therapy platform. The Activated Checkpoint Therapy platform is a novel approach to cancer treatment based on the restoration and activation of cellular checkpoints, which are generally defective in cancer cells.
The licensed intellectual property includes two patents that broadly protect the concept of checkpoint ...