Gilead Sciences Inc. said on April 11 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had lifted the partial clinical hold placed on the company’s trials testing a blood cancer drug combination.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration placed a partial clinical hold on Alpine Immune Sciences’ NEON-2 trial, which is evaluating davoceticept (ALPN-202) in combination with Merck’s immunotherapy pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in adults with cancer.

U.S. regulators halted a trial of Novartis’ Zolgensma treatment after an animal study raised safety concerns, in a setback for the drugmaker’s plan to expand the product’s use to older patients.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifted a partial clinical hold placed on AbbVie’s Phase III CANOVA trial evaluating venetoclax for the treatment of relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration placed a partial clinical hold on all trials of AbbVie’s Venclexta for multiple myeloma, after a review of data found a higher proportion of deaths in the cancer drug arm of the late-stage study.