Cancer Research UK and Cancer Research Technology are to join forces with big pharma, Astellas Pharma to find new drug targets in the fight against cancer, with an initial focus on pancreatic cancer.
Cancer Research UK, CRT and Astellas will conduct a two-year research programme in the UK to find promising new drug targets for pancreatic cancer.
The first stage aims to identify and then validate the best possible drug targets to block the autophagy pathway in pancreatic cancer cells.
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