New Moffitt Cancer Center patent promises to accelerate cancer trials
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 12:02
in Health & Medicine
A new patent has been issued to Moffitt Cancer Center for a computerized system that efficiently selects the right patient for the right clinical trial. The newly patented system matches the registered patient's own molecular profile warehoused in a database of thousands of patient-donated biological tissue or tumor samples to the molecular design of the drug aimed at targeting their disease at the molecular level, and does it quickly. The system promises to accelerate clinical trials and help shorten the time that it takes to get critically needed new drugs into the market.