Ipsen holds Cancer Science symposium

French drug major Ipsen held its 5th Colloque Medecine et Recherche in the series on Cancer Science in Jaipur, India on the theme "Molecular  Targets of Cancer Therapy."

The meeting united leading experts from both academia and the  pharmaceutical industry, who brought their unique perspective to the  problems inherent in rational drug design. This included two Nobel Prize  winners, Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus, who discovered oncogenes.  Together, the scientists focused on the steps required to design drugs  that target pathways involving genes such as RAS, PI3K and PTEN,  mobilizing the immune system against tumors, and combating resistance to  targeted therapies.