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Sac-TMT significantly extended overall and progression-free survival for patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer by 6.9 months over chemotherapy in a Phase 3 trial—becoming the first TROP2-directed ADC to do so in this setting, Merck told BioSpace.
JNJ-6143, which came from Johnson & Johnson’s $3 billion takeover of Halda Therapeutics in 2025, showed a 75% overall response rate in the Phase 1 readout.
While biopharma financing exit activity has remained strong through the third quarter, public-market performance for the same period was muted, with most of the yearly gains for the U.S. biotech-specific index largely driven by the first half of 2026.
After sitting through the full presentation on the Phase 3 INTerpath-001 trial at the ESMO Congress over the weekend, analysts are more keen on the personalized mRNA cancer vaccine data that last week spurred a stock selloff for both partners.
When used alongside AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi, the bispecific T cell engager Imdelltra extended survival by eight months versus Imfinzi alone in Phase 3 study testing the combo in a first-line maintenance setting—a potentially “practice-changing” outcome, according to Truist Securities.
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Extending both progression-free and overall survival, Genmab’s Rina-S “sets a high bar for future competition” in a market served by AbbVie, analysts said.
As both Taysha Gene Therapies and Neurogene warm up for an important year of readouts, the Rett syndrome community is pinning hopes on a smooth finish—and possibly, a result in line with Novartis’ spinal muscular atrophy gene therapy Zolgensma.
CROs cite faster startup timelines, regulatory predictability and tax incentives as reasons for growing interest in Australia. State investments in manufacturing, translational research and advanced therapies aim to expand that advantage into a broader biotech ecosystem. The question remains whether Australia can support drug development at broader scale.
The disclosure—which came ahead of a presentation of data from the Phase 1 Breakfree-2 study at the ACTRIMS-ECTRIMS meeting—follows Bristol Myers Squibb’s late summer revelation that it had paused certain trials of zolacabtagene autoleucel.