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Sanofi Maps Out R&D Expectations For 2H 2021

Readouts In Cancer, COVID-19 And Pemphigus

 
• By John Davis

Sanofi has transformed the productivity of its R&D pipeline over the past several years, and late-stage clinical data readouts are expected in the second half of this year for new anticancer drugs, a candidate pemphigus therapy and a COVID-19 vaccine.

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• Source: Alamy

Late-stage clinical data are expected to be released in the second half of this year for Sanofi’s oral BTK inhibitor rilzabrutinib and its checkpoint inhibitor Libtayo (cemiplimab), as well as for the company’s next-generation oral SERD candidate amcenestrant and SP0253, the recombinant-protein COVID-19 vaccine being developed in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline plc. 

The Phase III readout for rilzabrutinib, the oral BTK inhibitor acquired from Principia Biopharma, Inc., will involve the treatment...

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