Roche Builds Hematology Pipeline Beyond B-Cell Disease
Executive Summary
Roche is not content with replacing its aging Rituxan franchise in blood cancers. At ASCO, the company described its long-term plans to solidify Gazyva as the new CD20 backbone for non-Hodgkin lymphomas while using Venclexta and even newer candidates like targeted therapy idasanutlin to extend into new blood cancer indications – including the high-need acute myeloid leukemia space.
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