How To Catch The Next Wave Of Cancer Immunotherapy

Forging a development partnership with a big pharma PD-1/L1 sponsor has become a sort of beauty contest with many in the running, and small companies are best advised to invest in good preclinical datasets to make the grade, execs say at the BIO Investor Forum in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO – Four large pharmas may dominate the checkpoint immunotherapy space today, but opportunities remain for companies of all sizes to improve response rates alongside checkpoint inhibitors in combinations, and to offer value through personalized approaches, execs said during an oncology panel at the BIO Investor Forum in San Francisco.

Today, the family of programmed death (PD-1/L1) checkpoint inhibitors dominates cancer immunotherapy development. Merck & Co. Inc.’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.’s Opdivo (nivolumab) have been at...

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