New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting, including: Abbvie, Ascentage, Compugen, Hookipa, Osel, PDS, Seven and Eight.
Data presented to the American Society of Clinical Oncology and taken from Hookipa Pharma Inc.’s ongoing phase I/II study for treating advanced human papillomavirus 16-positive (HPV16+) cancers underwhelmed investors as the stock (NASDAQ:HOOK) sagged 19.25% on June 8.
Shares of Cullinan Oncology Inc. (NASDAQ:CGEM) rose 11.3% to close at $33.11 on June 4 as an update on its EGFR inhibitor, CLN-081, suggested it may prove competitive with Johnson & Johnson's recently approved treatment, Rybrevant (amivantamab), for adults with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors bear EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations.
Updated interim data from the ongoing dose-escalation portion of Harpoon Therapeutics Inc.’s phase I/IIa study of HPN-424 showed the metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer therapy may move on to a dose expansion.
DUBLIN – The latest update from Merus NV’s phase I/II trial of zenocutuzumab (MCLA-128) – and its early access program – in patients with solid tumors harboring an NRG1-fusion offered a slight improvement on the data disclosed in an abstract released last month, in the run-up to the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting, including: Alligator, Amgen, Antengene, Beigene, Deciphera, Eli Lilly, Exelixis, Gilead, Magenta, Novartis, Phio, Puma, Spectrum, Tarveda, Yingli.
The American Society for Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO) virtual annual meeting began June 3 with the release of late-breaking abstracts, including LBA-1 on “Olympia: A phase 3, multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of adjuvant?olaparib?after (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations and high risk HER2-negative primary breast cancer.”
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at Digestive Disease Week, including: 4D Pharma, Abbvie, Axcella, BMS, Eli Lilly, Ferring, Redhill, Seres, Surrozen.
With the advent of targeted therapies, cancer drugs have made strides in safety as well as efficacy. Still, because of the life threatening nature of the illness, safety is less of a focus in cancer drugs than other therapy types.
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