Shares in Agios Pharma ticked upwards after the FDA awarded breakthrough status to a companion diagnostic to vorasidenib, its experimental drug for brain cancer.
NICE has recommended NHS funding for Roche’s Rozlytrek (entrectinib) as a treatment option for advanced non-small cell lung cancer with a rare mutation in final draft guidance.
Scopus BioPharma has licensed a gene-silencing drug from California’s City of Hope hospital that is due to start clinical testing in lymphoma patients later this year.
AbbVie will pay Danish antibody specialist Genmab $750 million upfront for rights to a series of drugs headed by epcoritamab, a bispecific antibody in development for non-Hodgk
Merck & Co’s bid to become standard care in untreated bladder cancer has run into trouble after its Keytruda failed to outperform chemotherapy in this lucrative indication.
AstraZeneca and Gilead are both staying tight-lipped over rumoured merger talks, but the consensus among analysts seems to be that there would anyway be little value in such a