“…Pre‐clinical studies in CLL (Chen et al , 2009c; Decker et al , ; Cervantes‐Gomez et al , ), other haematological malignancies (Garcia et al , ; Keane et al , ; Brunen et al , ; Nair et al , ; Paino et al , ) and solid tumours (Chen et al , 2009b, ; Foulks et al , ; Braso‐Maristany et al , ; O'Hayer et al , ; Warfel et al , ), suggest that, owing to their important roles in tumour cell biology, the PIM family of kinases may represent targets for novel, single agent or combination therapies. This concept is illustrated by a recent study in which the combination of a PIM and a PI3 kinase inhibitor, NMS‐P645 and GDC‐0941 respectively, had significantly more anti‐proliferative activity than either inhibitor alone against pancreatic cancer cells (Mologni et al , ).…”