Merck KGaA and Pfizer’s immunotherapy Bavencio (avelumab) has been approved by the FDA in combination with Pfizer’s Inlyta (axitinib) for the first-line treatment of
Daiichi Sankyo had a day of mixed fortunes after advisers to the US regulator voted against approval for its leukaemia drug quizartinib, but recommended pexidartinib for a rare tumour.
Eli Lilly’s Cyramza has a new string to its bow after the FDA approved it as a second-line treatment for certain liver cancer patients, and received a further boost as the FDA removed a box
US biotech Mustang Bio says that an investigator-led trial of its CAR-T therapy for multiple myeloma – the first to target CS1 protein – has started recruiting patients.
In March AstraZeneca asked investors for $3.5 billion to fund a collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo over a new breast cancer drug – and it looks like the project is on track.
AstraZeneca has said that it will stop a Phase III trial of its chronic lymphocytic leukaemia drug Calquence (acalabrutinib) early after the drug met its primary endpoint in an interim anal