Exscientia begins enrollment for Phase 1/2 cancer trial of CDK7 inhibitor

Exscientia begins enrollment for Phase 1/2 cancer trial of CDK7 inhibitor

AI-driven precision medicine company Exscientia has initiated enrollment for its Phase 1/2 “ELUCIDATE” study, marking the first trial of its precision-designed CDK7 inhibitor, GTAEXS617 (‘617), in the treatment of advanced solid tumours. The trial aims to investigate the safety, efficacy, and pharmacokinetics of GTAEXS617 through multiple ascending doses for patients with advanced solid tumours, including […]

Eagle Pharmaceuticals gets Pemfexy FDA approval for NSCLC

Eagle Pharmaceuticals gets Pemfexy FDA approval for NSCLC

Eagle Pharmaceuticals has secured an additional indication for Pemfexy (pemetrexed injection) in the US, marking the fifth indication for the intravenous medication. Pemfexy in combination with Merck’s Keytruda and platinum chemotherapy has been now approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the initial treatment of patients with metastatic, non-squamous, non-small cell lung […]

Biomea Fusion to take BMF-219 into clinical trials for KRAS solid tumors

Biomea Fusion to take BMF-219 into clinical trials for KRAS solid tumors

Biomea Fusion is all set to take BMF-219 into clinical trials in patients having unresectable, locally advanced, or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), colorectal cancer (CRC), and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) with an activating KRAS mutation. The upcoming milestone for the NASDAQ-listed biopharma company follows the clearance of the US Food and Drug Administration […]

BMS to acquire precision oncology company Turning Point Therapeutics for $4.1bn

BMS to acquire precision oncology company Turning Point Therapeutics for $4.1bn

Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) has agreed to acquire Turning Point Therapeutics, a clinical-stage precision oncology company based in California, for $4.1 billion. Listed on the Nasdaq, Turning Point Therapeutics is developing drug candidates that are said to target the highly common mutations related to oncogenesis. Its flagship asset is repotrectinib, which is a tyrosine kinase […]

Cullinan Oncology to sell Cullinan Pearl to Taiho Pharmaceutical for $275m

Cullinan Oncology to sell Cullinan Pearl to Taiho Pharmaceutical for $275m

American biopharma company Cullinan Oncology has agreed to sell its subsidiary Cullinan Pearl to Taiho Pharmaceutical, a Japanese specialty pharma company, for $275 million. Cullinan Oncology has also reached an agreement with Taiho Pharmaceutical to co-develop and co-commercialize CLN-081/TAS6417, the lead program of Cullinan Oncology. Cullinan Pearl holds worldwide rights to CLN-081/TAS6417 outside of Japan. […]

FDA rejects Lilly’s sintilimab as first line treatment of NSCLC

FDA rejects Lilly’s sintilimab as first line treatment of NSCLC

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rejected the biologics license application (BLA) of Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly)’s sintilimab injection in nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Lilly has been issued a complete response letter (CRL) for the BLA for the PD-1 inhibitor in combination with pemetrexed and platinum chemotherapy. The US pharma […]

Genprex begins dosing of phase 1/2 trial of REQORSA, Tagrisso combo

Genprex begins dosing of phase 1/2 trial of REQORSA, Tagrisso combo

Genprex has dosed the first patient in the Acclaim-1 phase 1/2 clinical trial of REQORSA immunogene therapy candidate in combination with Tagrisso (osimertinib) in a certain patient population having late-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The combination of REQORSA and Tagrisso is being evaluated in the trial in late-stage NSCLC patients with activating epidermal growth […]

AstraZeneca reports positive results for phase 2 COAST trial of oleclumab and monalizumab

AstraZeneca reports positive results for phase 2 COAST trial of oleclumab and monalizumab

AstraZeneca has reported positive results from the COAST phase 2 trial of its oleclumab or monalizumab in combination with Imfinzi (durvalumab) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The pharma giant said that the mid-stage clinical trial showed the experimental combinations to have improved progression-free survival (PFS) as well as objective response rate (ORR). […]