The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a partial clinical hold for Foghorn Therapeutics’ Phase I clinical study, investigating the safety and efficacy of FHD-286 in patients with relapsed and/or refractory acute myelodysplastic leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). The hold follows a serious adverse event in which a study participant died after developing possible differentiation syndrome.
A U.S. patient with leukemia has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus that causes AIDS, researchers reported on February 15.
Autolus Therapeutics is receiving as much as $250 million in funding after signing a collaboration deal with Blackstone Life Sciences to support the company’s cancer treatment research.
Japanese biopharmaceutical firm Takeda Pharmaceutical announced that the company’s drug candidate for leukemia failed to meet the primary endpoint in a late-stage study.
Research published in Lancet Oncology analyzed how the risk of death from Covid-19 varies by tumor subtype and patient demographics.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration extended the review period for Novartis AG’s multiple sclerosis drug ofatumumab by three months.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2020 meeting was held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and included hundreds of abstracts, posters and presentations.
Swiss drugmakers Roche and Novartis underscored how their portfolios are increasingly clashing on the commercial battlefield, announcing new data on drugs aimed at capturing market share from each other.
U.S. drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. reported higher-than-expected third-quarter 2019 profit, helped by strong sales of the blood thinner Eliquis, even as growth of the company’s blockbuster cancer treatment Opdivo slowed.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed Medicare coverage of approved CAR-T cell therapies that use the patient’s immune system to fight cancer.