Merck KGaA could be looking at an early 2021 approval for its MET inhibitor tepotinib in lung cancer from the FDA after the US regulator started a priority review of the drug,
Shares in Agios Pharma ticked upwards after the FDA awarded breakthrough status to a companion diagnostic to vorasidenib, its experimental drug for brain cancer.
Eli Lilly now has a second approved drug from its takeover of Loxo Oncology last year after getting the go-ahead from the FDA for RET inhibitor Retevmo.
Oncolytic virus therapy is not a new discovery, but it may now be positioned as the next major breakthrough in cancer treatment following the success of checkpoint inhibitors in immunothera