Category: Ikke-kategoriseret

VAR2 PHARMACEUTICALS RECEIVES INDUSTRY PHD STUDENT GRANT

Today the Innovation Fund Denmark (innovationsFonden) granted 1 million DKK over 3 years to VAR2 Pharmaceuticals and Copenhagen University to fund an Industry PhD student in the project “Cancer immunotherapy based on a malaria protein”. We are very happy for the grant and look forward to work with the talented soon-to-be new PhD student Jessica […]

POUL SORENSEN NOMINATED AS SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTOR TO CANADA’S INNOVATIVE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY

On May 7th, Bloom Burton & Co. announced that VAR2 Pharmaceuticals’ co-founder and member of the Board, Prof. Poul Sorensen, is one of the three final nominees to the prestigious 2019 Bloom Burton Award, honouring individuals making the greatest contributions to Canada’s healthcare industry in the past years. We are very proud of having Poul on […]

POUL SORENSEN NOMINATED AS SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTOR TO CANADA’S INNOVATIVE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY

On May 7th, Bloom Burton & Co. announced that VAR2 Pharmaceuticals’ co-founder and member of the Board, Prof. Poul Sorensen, is one of the three final nominees to the prestigious 2019 Bloom Burton Award, honouring individuals making the greatest contributions to Canada’s healthcare industry in the past years. We are very proud of having Poul on […]

BEST POSTER PRESENTATION AT EMBO CANCER MEETING!

It is with great pleasure we can announce that Dr. Nader Al-Nakouzi was awarded The FEBS Journal Best Poster Prize for the poster “Expression and regulation of oncofetal chondroitin sulfate in prostate cancer” at the  Cellular signalling and cancer therapy EMBO workshop in Cavtat, Croatia 14-18 September 2018.

PRESENTATION OF VAR2-BASED IMMUNOTHERAPY AT THE 9TH CDD CONFERENCE ON CANCER

Co-founder and executive Chairman of the Board of directors, Dr. Mads Daugaard, are to present data on VAR2-based immunotherapy in the context of the cancer microenvironemnt at the 9th CDD Conference on Cancer, taking place in London, September 17-19, 2018. The title of the talk is “Targeting oncofetal glycosaminoglycans in the tumor microenvironment”.

A STUDY FURTHER SUPPORTING RVAR2 AS A POTENTIALLY UNIVERSAL CANCER TARGETING MOLECULE PUBLISHED IN NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

Today our researchers at Copenhagen University and University of British Columbia together with academic partners in United Kingdom, Australia and Taiwan published an article in Nature Communications that demonstrates that rVAR2 indeed can be used as a tool to capture and isolate circulating tumour cells (CTCs) of various types. This is an important event also […]