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Merck & Co’s TROP2 Partner Trumpets Phase III Success In TNBC

Kelun Planning China Filings

 
• By Kevin Grogan

Merck & Co's antibody-drug conjugates pact with Kelun is progressing well and the lead candidate of the pact, the TROP2-targeting candidate codenamed SKB264/MK-2870, has significantly improved progression-free survival in triple-negative breast cancer patients in a late-stage trial in China.

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Merck & Co., Inc.'s advances into the antibody-drug conjugate space through its partnership with Sichuan Kelun Pharmaceutical Co Ltd. continue to bear fruit with the Chinese biotech heralding success in a late-stage study for the leading compound in the pact, MK-2870/SKB264, in the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).

Kelun has announced that an independent data monitoring committee has concluded an interim analysis of data from a Phase III trial of MK-2870/SKB264, which targets TROP2, and declared that the...

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