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Merck KGaA R&D Head: Biomarker Approach 'Further Validated' At ASCO

 
• By Sten Stovall

Luciano Rossetti says Germany's Merck is likely to partner M7824 bifunctional immunotherapy, and go solo with tepotinib.

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Merck KGaA is using biomarkers to select patients for testing Tepotinib and M7824. • Source: Shutterstock

Merck KGAA created an excited stir at ASCO with impressive presentations on its targeted tepotinib and its M7824 TGF-beta trap therapies in non-small cell lung cancer. Its biopharma R&D head tells Scrip the German group wants to develop and commercialize the former on its own, and partner M7824 with a big pharma.

At this year's American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago, Darmstadt-based Merck unveiled early data from its...

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