ORLANDO, Fla. – Not long past the opening of the American Society of Hematology’s (ASH) massive annual conference, Janssen Biotech Inc. released upbeat follow-up survivability data on Imbruvica (ibrutinib) from two studies and an integrated analysis evaluating Imbruvica in previously untreated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL).
ORLANDO, Fla. – New phase I/II data from Autolus Therapeutics plc announced at the American Society of Hematology’s (ASH) annual conference show that AUTO-3, the first bicistronic CAR T targeting CD19 and CD22 followed by an anti-PD1, was well-tolerated in a phase I/II study.
ORLANDO, Fla. – In an effort to get sickle cell disease (SCD) researchers, drug developers, patients and regulators all on the same page, the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and the FDA have released new recommendations aimed at establishing uniform global standards for clinical trial endpoints to evaluate new therapies.
ORLANDO, Fla. – Kura Oncology Inc., encouraged by new data on tipifarnib and positive feedback from the FDA, said Sunday that next year it will initiate a single-arm, phase II registration-directed trial of the candidate in angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL), a rare and often aggressive form of peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL).
ORLANDO, Fla. – While disparities remain in putting minority and older patients into clinical trials and being treated for blood cancers, there are successes in getting once-ignored patients into the mix so they can receive the same treatments as others.
ORLANDO, Fla. – “The Wright brothers showed that you could fly a plane, but it wasn’t very far and it wasn’t very safe,” Wendell Lim told his audience at the 61st American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting this weekend. “That’s where cell therapy is now.”
ORLANDO, Fla. - Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T) cells have proved to be a major advance in treating patients with refractory B-cell malignancies so far. But, often, in approaching those issues "we solve one and we create another," Stephen Schuster, a doctor at the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, told reporters at the 61st American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting Saturday.
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