Roche Third-Quarter Pipeline Adjustments Include Advancements, Delays
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Roche adjusted regulatory expectations for its pipeline during a third-quarter earnings call Oct. 16, moving up filing plans for onartuzumab (MetMAb) in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer to 2014 and pushing back an ocrelizumab filing in multiple sclerosis to 2015, both based on trial enrollment rates.
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