SAN DIEGO – At the Biocom 10th Annual Global Life Sciences Partnering Conference, panels of pharma executives highlighted what they're looking for to supplement their pipelines and offered advice that ran the gamut from company formation to the courting process to strategies for partnering pipeline drugs and platforms.
The EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) looked with favor on a bucketload of would-be drugs, issuing positive opinions for the European Commission to consider across a range of indications.
Merus N.V.'s second-quarter earnings report included an important update on phase I MCLA-117, which Jefferies analyst Maury Raycroft said could be a best-in-class "game-changer" for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) – a candidate that "alone is a reason to own the stock," in his view.