Pfizer and South Korea's Samsung Medical Center collaborate on liver cancer research

15 July 2010

Pfizer, the world's leading drugmaker by sales, has formed a research partnership with South Korea's Samsung Medical Center to jointly analyze tumors from Korean patients to generate gene expression profiles and that may ultimately direct therapies and enhance clinical outcomes in the patients with liver cancer.

A research team led by top scientists at SMC, including Professors Park Cheol-Guen, Im Ho-Young and Paik Soon-Myung, director of the Cancer Research Center, will conduct research in Seoul, while Neil Gibson, vice president of oncology research, will be responsible for the joint research program at Pfizer.

Seeks to address growing need for liver cancer treatments in Asia

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