Agios' IDH Inhibitors Show Their Mettle At ASH

Updates for key products from Agios bring comfort for analysts as it forges ahead with a filing and new studies in AML. Another of its investigational products is also showing first-in-class potential in pyruvate kinase deficiency.

Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc. is tilting at a year-end US approval filing for its first-in-class, oral, targeted inhibitor of the mutant IDH1 enzyme, ivosidenib, for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) as it presented new data at the American Society of Hematology meeting.

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