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Yesterday the company posted findings from an interim analysis of the Phase III DREAMM-7 trial showing that its antibody-drug conjugate Blenrep, when used in a three-drug regimen, led to a significant improvement in progression-free survival in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

The case was set to go to trial on Feb. 20 and instead, will now be dismissed, the British drugmaker said in a statement.

Cancer treatment maker 2seventy bio,  said it will sell all its experimental cell therapies to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals to focus on its only approved product Abecma.

Shares in Bayer dropped as much as 5.7% on Monday after the embattled German company was ordered to pay $2.25 billion in damages, the highest amount yet in its ongoing litigation linked to an alleged carcinogenic effect of its Roundup weedkiller.

The company announced that it will not sell new devices to treat sleep apnea in the United States in the coming years as it works to comply with a settlement with the Food and Drug Administration.

The FDA’s Peter Marks and Nicole Verdun in the NEJM Wednesday disclosed that more than 27,000 CAR-T doses have been administered in the U.S. as of the end of 2023, of which there are 22 cases of T-cell cancers.

An FDA advisory committee will meet to review J&J and Legend Biotech’s supplemental BLA for Carvykti for the treatment of relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma patients who have undergone at least one prior line of therapy.

In its final decision, the U.S. PTO invalidated all of the claims in Seagen’s patent 10,808,039, which covers the use of auristatin peptides connected to antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) via a specific linker technology.

Following the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference and other parallel meetings in San Francisco, it’s time to reflect on some of the significant deals secured last week.

Ambrx is developing therapies that belong to the class of drugs called antibody drug conjugates (ADC), which are described by researchers as “guided missiles” to target cancer cells and minimize damage to healthy tissue.