NEW YORK & SUNNYVALE, Calif. & RARITAN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY), Pharmacyclics, Inc. (NASDAQ:PCYC), and Janssen Research & Development, LLC announced today they have entered into a clinical trial collaboration agreement to evaluate the safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s investigational PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor OPDIVO® (nivolumab) in combination with IMBRUVICA® (ibrutinib), an oral Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor co-developed and co-marketed by Pharmacyclics and Janssen. The Phase 1/2 study will focus on evaluating the safety and anti-tumor activity of combining OPDIVO and IMBRUVICA as a potential treatment option for patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), follicular lymphoma (FL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Bristol-Myers Squibb has proposed the name OPDIVO (pronounced op-dee-voh), which if approved by health authorities, will serve as the trademark for the investigational drug, nivolumab.
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