West Lafayette, Ind.-based biopharmaceutical company Endocyte announced Feb. 24 that the company's folate-receptor biomarkers vintafolide and etarfolatide had orphan drug status and were moving closer to approval with a review by the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP).

Piramal Imaging announced today that F-18 florbetaben, also known as NeuraCeq, is cleared for commercial marketing by the European Commission.

Not for another several months, the 2014 World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) is scheduled to take Seoul, Korea, by storm from Sept. 17-20, but this week the Scientific Program Committee has made a formal request for abstracts to be submitted for presentation.

The European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna, the largest radiological conference throughout Europe, will be opening in less than two weeks from March 6-10 at the Austria Center Vienna, where it has now been held for 20 consecutive years.

The Toronto-based research group ADA Medical announced Feb. 14 that it would be collaborating with Ephoran Multi-Imaging Solutions in Turin, Italy, to provide preclinical imaging services.

Major cancer research organizations are banding together to assess how cancer disparity research will move forward. In the first collaboration of its kind, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) announced Feb. 13 that the institute would be working with the American Cancer Society, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to address concerns such as access to health care and factors related to variability of cancer outcomes.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have fashioned a smarter nanoparticle that runs RNA interference as a means of disease modification, the institute announced Feb. 10.

The use of an endothelialized microfluidic chip could be the key to understanding how nanoparticles in biomedicine behave in the presence of atherosclerosis, according to a study published online Jan. 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.