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Servier: Precision Approach To Immunotherapy Will Define New Oncology Era

 
• By Ayisha Sharma

Two oncology chiefs from the French firm talked to Scrip about how its pipeline echoes the emerging intersection between precision medicine and immuno-oncology and how biology is taking precedence over technology in cancer R&D.  

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Servier Has Built Strengths In Cancer Metabolism And Monoclonal Antibodies • Source: Shutterstock

Les Laboratoires Servier’s two-pronged approach to cancer R&D, focused on immunotherapy and programmed cell death, spans both solid and liquid tumors but homes in on those diseases with a high unmet need.

Talking to Scrip about its pipeline, global head of oncology medical and patient affairs Des Murphy said it addresses rare...

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• By Mary Jo Laffler

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• By Xu Hu

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