AstraZeneca and Merck & Co/MSD’s selumetinib has been given a breakthrough designation from the US FDA for a rare paediatric disease, after failing to make the grade in other cancers.
Bristol-Myers Squibb’s mega-merger with Celgene looks set to go ahead after activist hedge fund Starboard Value backed out of a campaign against the $74 billion deal.
AstraZeneca is to raise $3.5 billion to fund a global development and marketing collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo, for an antibody-drug conjugate and potential new targeted cancer medicine,
AstraZeneca has won the backing of NICE for its cancer immunotherapy Imfinzi for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with the drug made available via the Cancer Drugs Fund for now.
GlaxoSmithKline has announced more data making the case for its multiple myeloma antibody-drug conjugate GSK2857916, confirming that almost two thirds of patients responded to the drug afte
Merck and Pfizer are discontinuing the Phase III JAVELIN Ovarian PARP 100 study evaluating Bavencio (avelumab) in advanced ovarian cancer, signalling yet more disappointment for the PD-L1 immuno