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An unusual mascot and a former Cincinnati Bengal fight esophageal cancer

Earlier this year in Cincinnati, Lucid Diagnostics held its first #CheckYourFoodTube event that was built around screening former NFL players for esophageal cancer using the company’s EsoGuard test. The road that led to that event began more than three years ago, however, with a mascot named Freddy. A round flesh-colored being with a tube coming […]

Durham-based biotech company fast tracks treatment aimed at COVID-19’s effects on younger patients
| CBS 17 News

DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) – Durham-based Chimerix is on the fast track to saving lives of COVID-19 patients as experts learn more about deadly side effects for younger people. “We’ve essentially re-positioned the company to focus on getting this up and running in a matter of a few weeks,” said Chimerix CEO Mike Sherman. The drug DSTAT is […]

Durham Company Develops Drug That Could Help COVID-19 Patients
| Spectrum News

DURHAM, N.C. — The coronavirus attacks the body in so many ways, it has kept doctors guessing and sampling drugs they’ve used before for other purposes. Mike Sherman, the CEO of Chimerix, says it all started with a drug called DSTAT, under development to treat a serious and complicated type of cancer known as acute […]