Ipsen and partner Servier hope to extend the uses of their pancreatic cancer therapy Onivyde into the first-line treatment setting, assisted by new phase 3 data reported at the ASCO-GI 2023
Servier is already in the process of transforming itself into a much bigger player in cancer, and has just tripled its sales objectives for the category.
Ipsen and Servier's hopes of extending the uses for chemotherapy drug Onivyde have been knocked back by a failed phase 3 trial of the drug as a second-line therapy for small cell lung cance
Servier is on course to get a return on its $1.8 billion takeover of Agios Pharma's oncology business after getting a key FDA approval for Tibsovo, the main asset in the deal.
A London high court judge ruled this week that the damages paid to the NHS for an anticompetitive action by French pharma company Servier will not be reduced, despite an eyebrow-raising bid