Cancer

While overall survival remains immature, results so far show a clear trend in favor of Roche’s giredestrant.
TERN-701 more than doubled the response rate of Novartis’ rival approved therapy in an early-stage trial, sending the biotech’s shares flying.
The 2025 meeting of the American Society of Hematology features some of the newest developments in blood cancers and rare diseases.
GSK and Ideaya first linked up in 2020 to advance novel therapies for solid tumors. It is unclear why the pharma terminated the partnership.
The partnership will focus on Crescent’s PD-1/VEGF inhibitor CR-001 and Kelun-Biotech’s SKB105, both of which the companies plan to push into Phase I/II development for solid tumors early next year.
While Imvax’s autologous immunotherapy IGV-001 missed the primary endpoint of progression-free survival in a Phase IIb trial, the company will request a meeting with the FDA to discuss next steps for “synergistic” treatment.
The FDA’s docket in December includes decisions for two big biologic franchises: BMS’s Breyanzi and Amgen’s Uplizna.
Imfinzi is the first immunotherapy approved for perioperative use to treat gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancers.
Tecvayli plus Darzalex led to an 83% boost to progression-free survival versus the current standard therapy in relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, results analysts at Guggenheim Securities called “remarkable.”
After GSK subsidiary Tesaro filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming that AnaptysBio breached “certain requirements” under their 2014 license agreement involving GSK’s Jemperli, Anaptys responded Friday morning.
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