Junshi Biosciences announced that the Phase III clinical trial the Chinese pharmaceutical company is conducting alongside California-based Coherus BioSciences on a potential non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) drug is showing positive preliminary results. 

Acceleron Pharma and Fulcrum Therapeutics enter 2020 as partners to tackle pulmonary diseases.

The U.S. FDA approved an expanded label for Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy Keytruda as monotherapy for the first-line treatment of patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer who are not candidates for surgical resection or definitive chemoradiation, or metastatic NSCLC, and whose tumors express PD-L1 as determined by an FDA-approved test, with no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations.