The trial, involving 722 patients, was run by a group of academics sponsored by the National Cancer Institute.
With the involvement of these committees, PREDICT supports research conducted by (1) academics affiliated with the BC Cancer Agency and university institutions who are funded by academic sources and (2) academics sponsored and funded in whole or in part from industry or commercial sources.
From Boston, her longtime friend and academic sponsor, Paula Donovan, was calling everyone she could think of.
Only in few cases will academic sponsors be able to conduct trials without external funding.
Several of the same studies sponsored by AbbVie are included in this analysis, but our study includes additional industry and academic sponsors and shows the same effect.
Exploitation can arise when the ambitions of the academic sponsors or the strategical plans of the funders prevail on the interests of the communities.
Thanks to contributions from several academic sponsors, our host organizations, previous editions of ECCB and our commercial sponsors, we could provide 114 conference fellowships to PhD and postdoc applicants from all over the world.
Thanks to contributions from previous editions of ECCB and from our commercial and academic sponsors (including the International Society for Computational Biology), we could provide 62 travel fellowships to PhD and postdoc applicants from all over the world.
We also acknowledge our academic sponsors, the two communities of the Fund for Scientific Research Belgium (FWO, Flanders and FNRS) and institutional support from the interuniversity network on computational biology (IUAP BioMaGNet) and the university centers SymBioSys and BioSCENTer at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Genentech applied for approval of Avastin as a treatment for metastatic breast cancer based on a trial organized by academic researchers sponsored by the National Cancer Institute.
