As Wall Street awaits data from VBL Therapeutics Inc.’s phase III trial with ofranergene obadenovec (ofra-vec, also known as VB-111) in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer (PROC), the company hosted a key opinion leader conference call on the gene therapy’s likely market reception along with assorted details regarding the upcoming results from the 409-patient experiment known as Oval.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting, including: Akeso, Ascentage, Celsion, Foghorn, Onconano.
Results from a phase III study comparing Celltrion Inc.’s biosimilar VEGF ligand inhibitor CT-P16 to Roche Holding AG’s Avastin (bevacizumab) in patients with metastatic or recurrent non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) found it to be similarly effective and as safe compared to the reference drug. Incheon, South Korea-based Celltrion presented the results at the 2022 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. The company now plans “to speed up the approval process through consultation with regulatory authorities in each country,” a Celltrion official said.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting, including: Alpine, Apexigen, Basilea, Biopath, CG, Chemocentryx, Cstone, Deciphera, Erasca, Gritstone, Highlight, Kineta, Mustang, Neoimmunetech, Neoleukin, Oric, Portage, Sotio, Trishula.
The tumor microenvironment is critical for the ability of cancers to survive and grow, and some aspects of the microenvironment are studied, and targeted, accordingly. Tumor immunology is one of the most active areas of cancer research and has become a pillar of treatment. Others, not so much. “The nervous system is the last component of the microenvironment that people have left completely unrecognized,” Humsa Venkatesh told BioWorld. Even in brain tumors and metastases, where the presence of neurons is glaringly obvious, there has been little attention to how the two interact until recently.
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