Keytruda

The U.S. drug regulator declined to approve a combination of Merck & Co. Inc.’s blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda and Eisai Co. Ltd.’s Lenvima as the first line of treatment in patients with liver cancer.

IM Therapeutics is developing a personalized, orally available small molecule therapeutic for diabetes.

Cellectis announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration placed a clinical hold on the company’s MELANI-01 trial of UCARTCS1A for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (MM).

Moderna

As the United States accelerates the search for a coronavirus vaccine, tensions have erupted between government scientists and Moderna Inc., one of the leading developers, Reuters has learned.

Immunomedics announced that the company’s Phase III study involving Trodelvy met the primary endpoint of progression-free survival, as well as secondary endpoints, in patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer who have previously received at least two prior therapies.

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ObsEva announced topline data from the PRIMROSE 1 and 2 Phase III trials of Yselty (linzagolix) for uterine fibroids.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals – with the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – is launching Phase III trials of REGN-COV2, the company’s two-antibody cocktail for the treatment and prevention of COVID-19.

Emergent BioSolutions entered a five-year manufacturing services deal with Janssen Pharmaceutical to manufacture Johnson & Johnson’s Ad26.COV2-S COVID-19 vaccine.

China’s SinoVac is starting Phase III trials of a potential coronavirus vaccine, becoming one of three companies to move into the late stages in the race to develop an inoculation against the disease.