Bluebird and Celgene are focused on moving bb2121 into earlier lines of multiple myeloma therapy. Positive early data was was the opening headliner at ASCO, showing PFS improvements of about a year in heavily pre-treated patients – meeting expectations, though not overwhelming.
The headliner on the opening day of the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting June 1 was bluebird bio Inc.'s updated data on the second-generation chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy bb2121, targeting B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.
The updated data, including the first progression-free survival data in patients with multiple myeloma, eased investors as bb2121 showed notable...
Iovance’s Amtagvi won FDA accelerated approval in February, and Adaptimmune’s afami-cel may not be far behind, but cell therapies for solid tumors come with some extra challenges.
The discussant at ASCO’s NSCLC session said the field would need to “manage expectations” as the drugs do not appear to beat chemotherapy in all-comers.
Scrip reporter Alaric DeArment is joined by the Datamonitor Healthcare oncology analysts to review key highlights from the recent American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting.
US-based Citeline writer Sarah Karlin-Smith joins Brian Yang and Dexter Yan in China to discuss the US BIOSECURE Act and the recent BIO meeting in San Diego, while Dexter Yan discusses China-related ASCO highlights, in this mixed Chinese- and English-language episode.
AstraZeneca’s NIAGARA trial of perioperative Imfinzi in bladder cancer was positively received at the ESMO meeting but its design did not distinguish the contributions of each treatment portion to the overall effect – something that the US FDA is likely to have a view on.
Persistence has paid off for Incyte’s Zynyz in anal cancer with a Phase III win that should make up for a previous disappointment at the FDA and give a boost to the firm’s pipeline prospects for a post-Jakafi era.
Sutro Biopharma CEO Bill Newell spoke with Scrip about the company’s novel platform, its goal of improving folate receptor alpha-driven ovarian cancer and its business development strategy.
