A team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has developed bispecific antibodies that were able to target tumors driven by mutations in the tumor suppressor TP53 and the oncogene RAS, as well as subsets of T cells in T-cell malignancies.
Debiopharm International SA is more interested in developing drugs than marketing them. Bertrand Ducrey, CEO of Debiopharm, said he envisions the drugs the company is stewarding through development as a "living pipeline" that needs to be refreshed as drugs get to late-stage development. So Debiopharm is shipping global rights to xevinapant (Debio-1143) and its follow-on inhibitor of apoptosis proteins antagonist, Debio-4028, to Merck KGaA, of Darmstadt, Germany.
In a move that caught analysts and investors by surprise, the FDA rejected Athenex Inc.’s NDA for Oraxol, its oral version of paclitaxel, for use in metastatic breast cancer, citing safety risks and questioning the reliability of the clinical data supporting the application.
PERTH, Australia – Sydney-based Kazia Therapeutics Ltd. has out-licensed its ovarian cancer drug, Cantrixil (TRX-E-002-1), to Sweden’s Oasmia Pharmaceutical AB in a deal worth up to $46 million.
Oasmia will pay $4 million up front, and development milestones worth up to $42 million and double-digit sales royalties.
The cost of newly FDA approved Pepaxto (melphalan flufenamide) from Oncopeptides AB is designed to put the therapy in the middle of the range compared to other multiple myeloma therapies, CEO Marty Duvall told BioWorld. “There are products well entrenched in that space,” he added.
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