AstraZeneca and HutchMed have claimed their first approval – in China – for cMET inhibitor savolitinib as a treatment of patients with a form of non-small cell lung cancer.
Merck & Co's Keytruda has become the first checkpoint inhibitor to help patients with advanced cervical cancer live longer when used as alongside standard first-line drugs.
It would be easy to forget that back in 2019, BioNTech was an early-stage biotech firmly focused on cancer vaccines, before being catapulted onto the world-stage with its COVID-19 shot.
Gilead Sciences' cell therapy Kite Pharma has bulked up its position in natural killer (NK) cell therapies, pledging up to $2.3 billion for a partnership with Shoreline Bioscience focusing
GlaxoSmithKline has staked a claim to the fast-moving category of cancer therapies targeting the TIGIT immune checkpoint, agreeing a $2 billion plus licensing agreement with iTeos Therapeut
Daiichi Sankyo has made a little bit of pharma industry history, becoming the first drugmaker to win approval in Japan for a therapy for cancer based on a virus that selectively kills malig