AbbVie Puts Final Nail In Rova-T's Coffin After Another Trial Failure

AbbVie already wrote off $4bn of the $5.8bn Stemcentrx acquisition that gave it the antibody-drug-conjugate, but now the company has ended all Rova-T development.

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Rova-T was all but dead until the ADC's latest failure in SCLC. • Source: Shutterstock

The end of all research and development for rovalpituzumab tesirine (Rova-T) was pretty much a foregone conclusion after AbbVie Inc. said in January that it wrote off $4bn of the $5.8bn acquisition of Stemcentrx Inc. that brought the antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) to the company – but now it's official.

AbbVie announced on 29 August that it discontinued the entire Rova-T R&D program after an independent data monitoring committee (IDMC)...

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