AstraZeneca/Chi-Med Set For 'Selective' Pivotal Renal Cell Cancer Trial

Chi-Med is on course to successfully hit the first of a series of value inflection points slated for 2017. Savolitinib, an inhibitor of c-Met receptor tyrosine kinase partnered with AstraZeneca, has shown early clinical benefit in multiple cancers including a large subset of renal cell carcinoma, and a pivotal Phase III trial is now being planned.