Keeping Track: Venclexta Approved; Opdivo, Atezolizumab Seek Additional Indications
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Deal Watch: Amgen Takes Center Stage With Trio Of Transactions
The big biotech enters a collaboration in cancer immunotherapy and inflammation with Xencor, acquires Dutch biotech Dezima, and licenses a c-MET inhibitor to NantWorks. Also, Sun Pharma steps in to buy InSite Vision, which had been targeted by QLT.
ESMO In Brief: PD-1 Updates, Perjeta’s Striking Survival, Boehringer’s Gilotrif Head-to-Head EGFR Data & More
Data for Merck’s Keytruda in bladder cancer and AstraZeneca’s CTLA-4/PD-L1 combo were among the immunotherapy updates at the 2014 ESMO meeting. Other notable releases include Perjeta’s striking survival data, a possible reprieve in lung for Endocyte’s vintafolide and head-to-head lung cancer data for Boehringer’s afatinib.