The center will enable data sharing and analysis for researchers from both organizations. The initiative will be led in part by the team from MD Anderson’s Therapeutics Discovery division, which studies clinical data to understand how and for which patients new treatments will be most effective. Their findings will then be fed into Boehringer’s existing pipeline for the development of novel medicines.
Among the collaboration’s targets are treatments for mutations in the KRAS gene, commonly associated with certain types of lung and gastrointestinal cancers, and the development of an antibody with the ability to induce apoptosis.
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