With the US Food and Drug Administration having accepted Astellas Pharma, Inc.’s refiling of zolbetuximab, its Claudin18.2-targeting drug for gastric and gastroesphageal junction (G/GEJ) cancer, the company is now working to address the challenge of finding patients who express the target, given that testing for it is currently limited to large academic cancer centers.
ASCO: As FDA’s Zolbetuximab Decision Looms, Astellas Looks To Meet Testing Challenge
Scrip sat down with Astellas chief medical officer Tadaaki Taniguchi to talk about the drug maker’s plans for taking its Claudin18.2-targeting drug to the US market.
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