Phase II

With the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting held late last week, there is plenty of clinical trial news.
Shares of Protagonist Therapeutics climbed nearly 4% in premarket trading after the company announced its lead drug candidate rusfertide snagged Breakthrough Therapy Designation from the U.S. FDA.
Sanofi’s experimental breast cancer treatment amcenestrant in combination with Pfizer’s Ibrance is showing promising anti-tumor activity in postmenopausal women with metastatic breast cancer.
BioSpace continues to take a look at some of the data that will be shared at the 2021 ASCO meeting. Here are some of them.
MorphoSys Pharma is acquiring Constellation Pharmaceuticals for about $1.7 billion. Here’s everything you need to know about this billion dollars deal.
Inclusions and treatment initiation will be paused in all ongoing clinical studies until an investigation into the potential safety issue is complete.
Sanofi said that the phase II/III trial studying venglustat in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease was scrapped because it “did not meet futility criteria.”
Amgen reunites with Kyowa Kirin on the development and potential commercialization of KHK4083, an atopic dermatitis drug, which impacts nearly 30 million people worldwide.
The FDA approves Truseltiq for patients with previously-treated locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with an FGFR2 fusion or rearrangement.
The FDA gave the green light to Amgen’s Lumakras under accelerated approval as a treatment for patients with KRAS mutation whose disease has worsened over time.
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