Revving up metabolism at ASH 2018

Cancer metabolism is a prominent theme at this year’s ASH meeting, with researchers broadening the tent from metabolic targets that drive hematologic malignancies to those that intersect with other hot topics, notably immuno-oncology and epigenetics.

BioCentury’s survey of 4,355 abstracts from this year’s meeting of the American Society of Hematology, which takes place Dec. 1- 4 in San Diego, identifies 77 new and emerging targets, documents new cell types being engineered to treat cancer and finds rising preclinical activity in multiple myeloma (MM). ...