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Could CD47 Competitors Catch Up To Gilead After Magrolimab Hold?

 
• By Alaric DeArment

Gilead isn’t giving details about the events behind the partial hold on magrolimab/Vidaza combination studies, but analysts suspect cytopenias are the culprit.

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Gilead said the FDA had placed a partial hold on its trials testing magrolimab with Vidaza • Source: Shutterstock

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is keeping mum about what prompted a partial clinical hold on its program to develop magrolimab in combination with Bristol Myers Squibb Company’s Vidaza (azacitidine), apart from an imbalance in adverse events. But whatever the culprit, further delays in the program caused by the hold could erode Gilead’s lead in an increasingly crowded field of CD47-targeting drugs.

Gilead said 25 January that the US Food and Drug Administration placed a partial clinical hold on studies evaluating magrolimab/Vidaza...

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