Children's Medical Center Corporation

The General Hospital Corporation

Deepika Nehra

Mark Puder

Brian Kalish

Bo R Rueda

Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for treating or preventing certain cancers in a subject. In certain embodiments such compositions and methods generally relate to the use of G-coupled protein receptor 40 (GPR40) agonists to inhibit the growth or induce apoptosis of certain cancer cells. The compositions and related methods disclosed herein may be used to treat subjects affected by cancers, such as melanoma, medullary thyroid carcinoma, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors and neuroblastoma, and to reduce the incidence of metastases in such affected subjects.

Therapeutic target for the treatment of cancers and related therapies and methods

The present disclosure is directed to methods for enhancing, improving or increasing fertility or reproductive function. For example, the present disclosure is directed to a method for enhancing, improving, or increasing a female human's likelihood of becoming pregnant comprising: administering to the human a nutritional, dietary, or food fatty acid supplement comprising: at least 30% docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), by weight of the total fatty acids in the supplement in a form chosen from ethyl ester, free fatty acid, and triglyceride.

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Boston, MA, United States of America

Deepika Nehra