May 31, 20192 min readit’s that time of year!pre-ASCO highlights 2019 it’s that time of year again. the world of oncology is gathering in chicago this weekend for the american...
May 30, 20192 min readbiosimilars. past talk to actionbiosimilars aren’t coming, they’re here. in 2010 health canada published the HC Guidance document: information and submission...
May 22, 20192 min readcar-t. hype or hopea few weeks ago, I attended the canadian agency for drugs and technologies in health [CADTH] symposium in edmonton, AB. the opening...
May 13, 20192 min readtime for action- takeaways from the 2019 cadth symposiumthe annual canadian agency for drug and technologes in health CADTH symposium was held in edmonton, alberta with nearly 700 professionals...
May 7, 20192 min readthe car-t revolutionshifting the conversations. if the arrival of car-t has taught us anything, and it certainly has, it is that perhaps one of the major...
Apr 16, 20192 min readmanaging innovation in oncology [mio]a rapid new wave of innovations in technologies and therapies in oncology continue to disrupt the landscape, and while these innovations...
Mar 25, 20193 min readchallenges & potential barriers to CAR-T accesswith recent health canada approvals of two new car-t cell treatments [tisagenlecleucel in september 2018 and [axicabtagene ciloleuce] in...
Mar 13, 20192 min readIEEPO recap- further thoughts on the promise of personalised medicinelast week i had the opportunity to attend the international experience exchange for patient organizations [IEEPO] in rome, italy.  the...
Mar 5, 20192 min readthe promise of personalized medicinepersonalised medicine is widely considered as the way of the future for medicine, especially in cancer, where we are moving away from the...
Feb 26, 20192 min readapproval does not equal fundingas groundbreaking as car t-cell therapy is, it’s also incredibly complex and expensive to deliver. the rapid advances in and growth of...
Feb 21, 20192 min readyou can’t build a new technology into an old frameworkthe old adage says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but what about an outdated healthcare system. can we teach an old system to be...
Feb 11, 20193 min readbeing a change catalystwhat is car-t cell therapy? a t-cell [so called because they develop in the thymus gland] is a type of white blood cell and it plays an...
Feb 6, 20193 min readabout a community that created changeimmuno-oncology has been making headways over the last few years, from breakthrough therapy to standard of care and we are still only on...