Researchers in Singapore developed the world’s largest and highest-resolution atlas of gastric cancer.

Across the pharmaceutical industry, forging collaborations are a key tool to bringing new medications through the clinic and to market. This week, multiple companies have partnered in attempts to bring forth new therapies. BioSpace took a look at some of these announcements.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Bristol Myers Squibb’s Opdivo (nivolumab, injection for intravenous use) for the adjuvant treatment of completely resected esophageal or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer with residual pathologic disease in patients who have received neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT).

Bold Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted BOLD-100 an Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) in the treatment of gastric (stomach) cancer.

Keytruda

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Merck’s Keytruda in combination with trastuzumab, fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. Keytruda is the first anti-PD-1 therapy approved in combination with anti-HER2 therapy and chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for these patients.

One month after acquiring Five Prime Therapeutics and the company’s Phase III ready anti-FGFR2b antibody bemarituzumab for $1.9 billion, Amgen announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration awarded Breakthrough Therapy Designation to the asset as a first-line treatment for certain types of gastric cancer.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration Approves Opdivo®(nivolumab) in Combination with Chemotherapy for Patients with Advanced or Metastatic Gastric Cancer, Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer, and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma — Opdivo is the first […]

Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca’s Enhertu (fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki) was approved in the U.S. for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic HER2 positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma who have received a prior trastuzumab-based regimen.

Five Prime Therapeutics Inc., in collaboration Zai Lab Limited on the development of bemarituzumab – a novel therapy for front-line advanced non HER2+ gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer – announced groundbreaking positive topline Phase II results.

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu received supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) acceptance and U.S. priority review for the treatment of HER2-positive metastatic gastric cancer.