The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting opened at the McCormick Place convention center in Chicago with after-lunchtime sessions on breast cancer, melanoma, sarcoma and advancements on adjuvant cancer vaccines. As ASCO revved up, the CEOs of Merck & Co. Inc., Gilead Sciences Inc. and Eli Lilly and Co. vented their frustrations about the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act on innovation.
After shares climbed 36% on May 24 following the release of an American Society of Clinical Oncology abstract detailing an impressive phase II overall response rate in first-line head and neck cancer with bispecific antibody petosemtamab in combination with pembrolizumab, Merus NV is raising $400.2 million in an upsized follow-on offering.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) begins its 2024 annual meeting at the cavernous and labyrinthine McCormick Place convention center in Chicago Friday, May 31. It’s one of the world’s largest cancer research conferences and can be daunting to follow. More than 400 organizations will participate this year, with about 200 sessions ready to convene. The vast majority of the 5,000 abstracts that cover all aspects of cancer treatment have already been released, and they will be scrutinized by the more than 40,000 attendees from around the world.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, including: Akeso, Ascentage, Astrazeneca, Chimeric, CSPC, Daiichi Sankyo, Elevation Oncology, Iaso, Immutep, Immvira, Innovent, Nkgen, Transcenta.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, including: Amgen, Ascentage, Beyondspring, Bicara, Cohbar, Immvira, Jazz, Kite, Merck & Co., Moderna, Morphogenesis, Nascent, Neximmune, Nkgen, Oncoinvent, Oncolytics, Portage, Precigen, Promontory, Puma, Replimune, Servier, Sorrento, Sutro, Zentalis, Zymeworks.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, including: Agenus, Akeso, Alligator, Arcus, Atara, Bold, Coherus, Dragonfly, Ellipses, Erasca, Fulgent Genetics, Galera, Gilead, Gilead Sciences, Gracell, Iaso, Immunocore, Immunogen, Immutep, Innovent Biologics, Intensity, ISA, Janssen, Kite, Linnaeus, Memgen, NEC, Precigen, Transcenta, Transgene.
Since accelerated approvals first began to be granted in 1992, their pace for cancer indications has increased dramatically but a revolution in science has made it tough for the U.S. FDA to find its balance.
Breakthroughs in early detection of cancer offer increasing hope for better outcomes and longer lives for individuals affected by malignancies. This year’s American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting highlighted strong results from several companies at the forefront of this potential transformation.
When combined with chemotherapy, the PD-1 inhibitor antibody toripalimab reduced the risk of death by 37% over chemotherapy alone when used first line in patients with recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma, Coherus Biosciences Inc. revealed at this year’s American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting (ASCO).
Despite the title of the Sunday, June 4 lead-off presentation at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago, there was little room left for doubt about the increasingly important place of artificial intelligence (AI) in drug development.
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