An experimental Bristol Myers Squibb drug from a new class of immunotherapy used in combination with the company’s big-selling cancer medicine Opdivo significantly extended the time it took for advanced melanoma to worsen compared with Opdivo alone, according to early data from a study released on May 19.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee did not agree in a meeting to maintain the accelerated approval of Bristol Myers Squibb’s Opdivo (nivolumab) as a second-line treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma.
Bristol Myers Squibb Co. reported lower-than-expected first-quarter profit on April 29 as sales of the company’s high margin cancer drugs Revlimid and Opdivo fell short of Wall Street estimates.
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Takeda Pharmaceutical is advancing the Japanese pharma giant’s immune-oncology portfolio through the acquisition of the immunotherapy pioneer Maverick Therapeutics.
AstraZeneca will voluntarily withdraw the use of the company’s Imfinzi to treat advanced bladder cancer in the United States after the cancer drug failed to meet post-approval requirements, the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker said.
Shares of Cellectis Therapeutics were up in trading after the gene-editing pioneer company forged a deal with Cambridge, Mass.-based Cytovia Therapeutics to develop immunotherapies based on gene-edited allogeneic CAR T-cells.
Immunotherapy company 3T Biosciences picked John Connolly, Ph.D., as interim CEO.
Bristol Myers Squibb announced positive data from POETYK PSO-2, the second Phase III trial of deucravacitinib for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, evaluated against placebo and Amgen’s Otezla (apremilast).
Gilead Sciences inked a collaboration, option and license deal with Gritstone Oncology to create a vaccine-based immunotherapy as a cure for HIV.