#3/ Medivir/ updating deal with TLOG Source: http

#3/ Medivir/ updating deal with TLOG
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medivir
Updated: 2016-12-21T08:14Z

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Logotype of Medivir AB.jpg
Type
Public limited company
Traded as Nasdaq Stockholm: MVIR B
Industry Biotechnology
Founded 1988; 29 years ago
Headquarters Huddinge, Sweden
Area served
Global
Key people
Niklas Prager (CEO)
Products Oncological R&D
Number of employees
118
Website http://www.medivir.com

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Oncology

In 2016 Medivir announced that it would focus its research on cancers of high unmet medical need, where existing therapies are not very successful and there is a great opportunity to provide real benefit to patients who have few treatment options. Some cancer types of particular interest to Medivir include hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and pancreatic cancer, which are all highly aggressive diseases with poor treatment options and very low overall survival rates on the best current treatments today. HCC is a liver cancer derived from hepatocyte cells. HCC is one of the most common cancers worldwide and late stage HCC has a mean overall survival of only 9–11 months on the best available treatment today. Medivir motivated the transition from its origin in retroviral drugs to oncology by it being a logical extension of their expertise in liver disease from earlier work on hepatitis C to this area.