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Rakuten Medical Announces Two Poster Presentations and Exhibit Booth at ASCO 2026 Annual Meeting<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Rakuten Medical Presents New Preclinical Findings at AACR 2026 Showing COX\u20112 Inhibition Reduces Photoimmunotherapy\u2011Induced Edema via PGE\u2082 Suppression<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>
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Rakuten Medical’s 2nd R&D Day featured the preliminary safety and efficacy data for Alluminox treatment using ASP-1929 in combination with anti-PD-1 therapy<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Rakuten Medical Announces First Patient Treated in Ukraine in Global Phase 3 Trial of ASP-1929 Photoimmunotherapy + Pembrolizumab for 1L Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\nView all<\/a>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Rakuten Medical aims to transform head and neck cancer treatments in India<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\nView all<\/a>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The Alluminox\u00ae platform is an investigational platform based on a cancer therapy called photoimmunotherapy, which was developed by Dr. Hisataka Kobayashi and team from the National Cancer Institute in the United States. Rakuten Medical is currently developing the Alluminox\u00ae platform as a technology consisting of an investigational drug, device and other related components.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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While my wish to save my father from the debilitating effects of cancer may have not come true, the experience inspired in me the determination to work to discover new ways to save the lives of other cancer patients around the world. That same determination is the lifeforce behind Rakuten Medical.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Our first objective is to create and bring to market drugs and devices to treat cancers based on the Alluminox\u00ae platform. Our purpose is to develop the Alluminox\u00ae platform as an alternative technology in the fight against cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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To conquer cancer.
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Building a global biotechnology company committed to continued innovation to develop and commercialize pioneering cancer treatments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>

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Developing new standard of care cancer treatments based on our Alluminox\u00ae<\/span> platform.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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