Oncolytics After 2017 Refresh: New CEO Makes New Year Resolutions

2018 will be a year of change for Calgary, Canada-based Oncolytics Biotech, according to its CEO Dr. Matt Coffey. After switching gears to focus on metastatic breast cancer as the lead indication for its oncolytic virus-based drug candidate Reolysin, the biotech is ready to enter Phase III and step-up its clinical and commercial activities.

Oncolytics Biotech Inc., a Canadian firm developing an intravenous immuno-oncolytic virus agent against various cancers, is on a transformational path it hopes will lead the 1998-founded business towards a future as a leading immuno-oncology biotech.

In 2017, Oncolytics appointed new leadership members to its executive team and switched up its R&D focus from non-small cell...

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