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... icHuddersfield - Brave Keith's big night for charity icHuddersfield Homes JobsWestYorkshire Motors Dating Search The Web icHuddersfield for Home page News Local news National news Business news Falconio Background Features Messageboard Entertainment Online Ticket Shop HTAFC Sport Giants icGolf JobsWestYorkshire Dating Motors Homes Family Notices Summer Wine Classifieds Play Bet and Win Online Shop Money Business Finder Communities Ex-pats Our Newspapers Travel Weather Contact Us Bingo Local news Brave Keith's big night for charity Mar 31 2006By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner A CHARITY auction has raised more than £650 for St James's Hospital, Leeds.

Brave cancer victim Keith Stringer organised the event at the Golden Fleece, Berry Brow.

Huddersfield Town striker Andy Booth came along to help on the night, bringing a signed Town shirt and ball for the auction and a Giants rugby ball.

A mystery prize of a chest filled with goodies formed part of the auction, as well.

There were also several raffles on the evening, with prizes given by local businesses.

Story continues ADVERTISEMENT The auctioneer was Armitage Bridge man Peter Campbell.

Last summer a friend of Keith's, Alan Boothroyd, completed a 35-mile run from Berry Brow to Langsett Reservoir and back to help his fundraising efforts.

Keith, 47, of Berry Brow, has raised thousands of pounds for St Ja...

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diaDexus provided an exclusive license to CFD for its entire portfolio of therapeutic targets and associated monoclonal antibodies.

CFD's programs will leverage over eight years and $100 million of target discovery and antibody development efforts carried out at diaDexus.

Through its founding partnership with Incyte Genomics in 1997 and its own discovery program, diaDexus identified genes that are highly over-expressed in cancerous relative to normal tissue.

Starting from thousands of candidate genes, diaDexus identified approximately 20 promising candidates to move forward into pre-clinical development as therapeutic antibody targets.

"We have selected the best targets and monoclonal antibodies from our discovery efforts through great rigor and careful biology," said Jackie Papkoff, Chief Scientific Officer for CFD Therapeutics and formerly Executive Vice President of Discovery and Therapeutics at diaDexus.

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