Top Drugs To Watch At ASH 2017: CAR-T, Venetoclax Among Highlights

Highlights of the upcoming American Society of Hematology meeting include updated data for CAR-T therapies, pivotal results moving major brands into bigger markets, PD-1 inhibitors branching out into new types of hematological malignancies and dueling gene therapies in hemophilia.

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Phase III data for J&J's Darzalex in frontline multiple myeloma will be a highlight of a late-breaker session at the ASH meeting. Above, 3D rendering of the CD38 (ectodomain fragment) enzyme, the target of Darzalex.

Biopharmaceutical companies large and small will jockey for competitive positions in the emerging market of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies for hematologic malignancies and in moving big-name drugs into large new markets with data presented during the American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting Dec. 9-12 in Atlanta.

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