Conferences
J&J presented data at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting showing more than five-year disease- and therapy-free survival, but a myeloma working group will need to define what makes a cure.
The company is raising the money to fuel development of its head and neck cancer candidate, petosemtamab, on the back of promising early data. Some analysts are stopping short of declaring it the winner against a rival product from Bicara, however.
US green light will further expand sales of the prostate cancer blockbuster.
Small-cell lung cancer treatment is rapidly evolving, but Jazz and Roche are set to create a new maintenance therapy setting with their Zepzelca plus Tecentriq combination.
The company highlighted the KLK2-targeting agent’s safety at ASCO but it may have to rely on combinations to make pasritamig competitive.
The drugmaker presented oral abstracts at the meeting for Libtayo in adjuvant cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma and linvoseltamab in multiple myeloma.
ASCO sees the debut of Lupin’s PRMT5 inhibitor candidate LRNP7457, currently in Phase I studies in India. While no drug with this mechanism of action has been approved anywhere so far, several candidates are in clinical trials.
Data presented at ASCO supports use of AZ’s Imfinzi for perioperative gastric cancer and BMS’s Opdivo for adjuvant treatment of head and neck cancer.
Data from AstraZeneca/Daiichi’s breast cancer trial showed positive PFS, but some oncologists are waiting for confirmation of statistically significant OS benefit.
AstraZeneca presented data from the SERENA-6 trial that experts said could represent a significant change in how HR+/HER2- breast cancer is treated.
Takeda/Protagonist are awaiting 52-week data to confirm the results from the VERIFY trial of the drug in polycythemia vera.
Gilead chief medical officer Dietmar Berger said in an interview that the company plans to quickly take the results to regulators and foresees broad first-line use of the drug.
The drug boosted overall responses on top of the R-GemOx backbone, but the discussant pointed out that patients in waveLINE-003 were not very heavily pretreated.
Ascentage will share at ASCO new clinical data on its Bcl-2 inhibitor lisaftoclax, part of the Chinese firm's novel pipeline, on which its CEO shared with Scrip plans and strategy, along with some views on the use of RWD in China.
AI-powered drug development was a major topic at the recent Bio Korea meeting, where experts discussed how the technology is changing R&D activities and the challenges being faced by Korean firms as they look to catch up with their global competitors.
Data from several closely watched solid tumor drug trials – some considered practice-changing – are scheduled for presentation at the meeting, including for AstraZeneca and Daiichi’s Enhertu.
With the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting kicking off on 30 May, Scrip will follow the latest in blood cancers, including Regeneron’s linvoseltamab in multiple myeloma and Merck’s ADC zilovertamab vedotin in DLBCL.
Updated Phase II results from petosemtamab have impressed ahead of ASCO, outshining Keytruda monotherapy and its bispecific rival from Bicara.
The German biotech has been forced into insolvency and NASDAQ suspension.
The company hopes the drug will become the standard of care rescue treatment in asthma.