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Trio of Texas biotech firms win total of $50 million in grants for cancer

by Ryan Cross
August 31, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 35

The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas is supporting 16 Texas institutions with more than $177 million. Three grants, totaling more than $50 million, are heading to a trio of biotech firms. Forbius will receive nearly $19 million to evaluate an anti-EGFR antibody-drug conjugate in Phase IIa clinical trials. Korysso Therapeutics will receive nearly $20 million to develop compounds that treat neurological damage caused by cancer chemotherapy. And CerRx will receive nearly $12 million to test combination drug therapies in lymphoma.

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