Vemurafenib is a competitive kinase inhibitor with activity against BRAF kinase with mutations like V600E. It exerts its function by binding to the ATP-binding domain of the mutant BRAF. Vemurafenib was co-developed by Roche and Plexxikon and it obtained its FDA approval on August 17, 2011, under the company Hoffmann La Roche. After approval, Roche in collab...
Vemurafenib is approved since 2011 for the treatment of metastatic melanoma with a mutation on BRAF in the valine located in the exon 15 at codon 600, this mutation is denominated as V600E. The V600E mutation, a substitution of glutamic acid for valine, accounts for 54% of the cases of cutaneous melanoma.
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Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Arthur M Blank Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Children's Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Providence Alaska Medical Center, Anchorage, Alaska, United States
M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
UC Davis; Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, California, United States
Rocky Mountain Cancer Center, Denver, Colorado, United States
SCRI Florida Cancer Specialists South, Fort Myers, Florida, United States
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States
East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States
Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
CH Metropole de Savoie, CHAMBERY Cedex, France
Hopital Louis Pasteur; Sce Dermatologie, Colmar, France
Hopital Cochin; Dermatologie, Paris, France
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
PROCLAIM Invetigative Site, Glasgow, United Kingdom
PROCLAIM Investigative Site, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
PROCLAIM Investigative Ssite, Valencia, Spain
St. Luke's University Health network, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
Institut Gustave Roussy; Dermatologie, Villejuif, France
Universitätsklinikum Regensburg; Klinik und Poliklinik für Dermatologie, Regensburg, Germany
HELIOS Klinikum Erfurt, Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany
Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany
University Hospital Essen, Department of Dermatology, Skin Cancer Center, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
UPMC Cancer Center Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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