Category: News
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BG Lab will host Dr. Kleida Mati as a fellow under the 2026 ESMO Leadership and Career Development Award
September 1, 2026: Earlier today, the European Society for Medical Oncology announced its list of recipients for its 2026 Fellowship Programme. The Programme recognizes 31 emerging oncology professionals who will pursue high-impact research projects with international collaborations. BG Lab is proud to announce that we will be hosting Dr. Kleida Mati from American Hospital in…
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The Landscape of FDA Approvals – NEW BG Lab Paper in JAMA
July 30, 2026. BG Lab is very excited to announce that our newest paper has been published in JAMA, “Cancer Medicine Approvals in the US”. In this paper, we study all cancer drugs approved by the FDA in the last 20 years: 2006-2025. In this analysis of 385 FDA approvals of cancer drugs, we find several interesting trends worthy of highlighting. Key Findings: This publication…
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Downplaying Toxicities of Cancer Drugs is Not Acceptable
July 15, 2026. Over the past years, BG Lab has continued to raise awareness on misleading terms used to downplay toxicities of cancer drugs in clinical trials and advocate for changes. In 2018, BG published in The BMJ as a postgraduate trainee, recording the prevalence of subjective terms often used to downplay toxicities in clinical trials…
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Dr. Elen Baloyan Selected as the First Cancer Groundshot Virtual Fellow Under BG Lab-Oncodaily Partnership
May 30, 2026. BG Lab is proud to announce that Oncodaily will be supporting one BG Lab Virtual Fellow in Cancer Groundshot every year. Dr. Gyawali, the PI of BG Lab and Dr. Gevorg Tamamyan, the Editor-in-Chief of Oncodaily, jointly announced this exciting partnership at the Oncodaily Party at ASCO26 Annual Meeting in Chicago.…
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Are You Going to the ASCO Annual Meeting? Dr. Gyawali Provides a Collection of Resources to Make the Most of This Meeting!
May 22, 2026. Hello trainees, mentees, residents, fellows, early-career oncologists! We have collected a set of helpful resources for you to make the most of the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting: BG will be attending the ASCO Annual Meeting and will be part of several sessions:
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Episode 4 of Grounded in Groundshot: Meet Prof. Ian Tannock
May 11, 2026. BG Lab released the 4th episode of Grounded in Groundshot podcast with special guest, Dr. Ian Tannock. Dr. Ian Tannock is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Medical Biophysics from the University of Toronto and Princess Margaret Cancer Center. In this episode, they discuss how Dr. Tannock started his career in oncology,…
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Subcutaneous Immunotherapy: Patient Convenience or Patent Hopping?
April 2, 2026. A new article published from BG Lab in Journal of Clinical Oncology questions if new approvals of subcutaneous formulations of immunotherapy drugs are truly for patients’ convenience or simply a strategy of patent hopping. This paper was led by Dr. Laure-Anne Teuwen from BG Lab with senior author Dr. Bishal Gyawali and…
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Meet the New BG Lab Virtual Cancer Groundshot Fellow: Dr. Javier-David Benítez-Fuentes
March 11, 2026. BG Lab is excited to announce our second BG Lab Virtual Cancer Groundshot Fellow, Dr. Javier-David Benítez-Fuentes. Dr. Javier-David Benítez-Fuentes is a consultant medical oncologist at Hospital General Universitario de Elche in Spain, specialised in thoracic malignancies. He completed his medical oncology training at Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid, followed by a…
