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Five Prime Enters Transition Phase; Multiple Trials Planned In Next 12 Months

 
• By Lucie Ellis-Taitt

Five Prime, in partnership with immunotherapy giant Bristol-Myers Squibb, will launch several pivotal trials in the next 12 months for its lead compound cabiralizumab – both in combination with Opdivo in cancer and as a monotherapy in orphan disease PVNS.

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R&D progress has pushed Five Prime into a 'transition phase,' says CEO • Source: Shutterstock

Five Prime Therapeutics Inc. has set itself ambitious targets for the next 12 months that will see the company launch trials for a novel immunotherapy and chemotherapy combination in first-line gastric cancer and for its lead compound cabiralizumab in the joint tumor disease, pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS).

In the coming months, the San Francisco-based biotech will also progress cabiralizumab in several cancer indications in combination with Bristol-Myers...

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