NSCLC

Jun 01, 2021

FDA Validates Use of Amgen’s KRAS Inhibitor in Lung Cancer  In a pathbreaking move, Amgen has gone ahead to emerge as a trailblazer in the undruggable lung cancer space with the approval of its KRAS inhibitor, Lumakras. For eons, the researchers grappled to come up with an effective and potential drug to ta...

Mar 23, 2021

Promega Biotech Ibérica Gains Recognition for COVID-19 Response in Spain Promega Biotech Ibérica has been heralded as the business leader in Spain for its COVID-19 response. The company’s innovative approach to deal with COVID-19 and pandemic has led La Razón, a daily newspaper based in Madrid, to felicitate the...

Feb 23, 2021

Clover Biopharmaceuticals Raises $230 Million  Clover Biopharmaceuticals announced the completion of an oversubscribed $230 million Series C financing, summing total capital raised by the company during the last year over USD 400 million. The Series C round was co-led by GL Ventures and Temasek, with partic...

Jul 28, 2020

AZ, Daiichi put their trust into TROP2-based drugs, inks an oncology deal to together develop and commercialize DS-1062 AstraZeneca has inked an oncology deal with Daiichi Sankyo to jointly develop and commercialize an antibody-drug conjugate DS-1062 (trastuzumab deruxtecan), worldwide except in Japan. Daiichi ...

Jul 01, 2020

Over the past few decades Cancer has emerged as a major public health concern worldwide. Cancer is the second leading cause of deaths that takes place worldwide. Every sixth death is due to cancer, and in 2018 was estimated to be responsible for 9.6 million deaths. Costing people quality of lives and eventually lea...

Dec 05, 2019

Bristol-Meyers Squibb and Acceleron Pharma have announced that US FDA committee will review BMS’s supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for its Reblozyl in MDS. Reblozyl ((luspatercept-aamt) has recently been approved by the regulatory authority to cure a rare type of blood disorder, Beta-thalassemi...

Aug 23, 2019

The drug Imfinzi (durvalumab) has failed to come up as an effective treatment option for treating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The result of the NEPTUNE study was not much of a promising one and has been disclosed completely. The Pharma giant, AstraZeneca, has announced the incompetence of its lead candidate...

Oct 11, 2018

SNAPSHOTS: Copiktra receives FDA approval for CLL and FL, Relief for tazemetostat developers after FDA lifted partial clinical hold, Conference highlights from 19th WCLC The United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has granted approval to Verastem’s Copiktra (duvelisib), for the treatment of patients with...

Nov 03, 2017

AstraZeneca and Incyte are about to enter into Clinical Trial Collaboration in Early Lung Cancer The exclusive collaboration for the study population allows the two companies to conduct a Phase 3 trial. Aim of this study is to evaluate patients with locally-advanced (Stage III), unresectable non-small cell lung c...

Aug 04, 2017

The discovery of Cyclin Dependent Kinases (CDKs) is a result of increasing number of cancer cases worldwide. The development of CDKs has changed the paradigm for cancer treatment and it has gradually become an interesting area of research in oncology. The research on CDK inhibitors gained momentum because of the fre...