ASH 2023 – Arcellx still hopes to challenge Carvykti
The group highlights safety and manufacturability, as well as efficacy, but investors apparently have doubts.
The group highlights safety and manufacturability, as well as efficacy, but investors apparently have doubts.
Yet another ADC deal sees AbbVie buy ImmunoGen, ending a 40-year rollercoaster ride with a 100% overnight premium.
But the FDA’s investigation looks like worse news for autoimmune disease than oncology.
The latest first-in-human entrants include an anti-TROP2 ADC from Jiangsu Hansoh and a mystery bispecific from Johnson & Johnson.
The new deal comes as Carvykti manufacturing problems continue and 2seventy dials down Abecma expectations.
Akeso’s cadonilimab hits in its first-line study, but there’s no US data and no US partner.
A domvanalimab triplet shows some promise in high PD-L1-expressing gastric cancer patients, but caveats abound.
But today’s deal with Jiangsu Hengrui doesn’t mean that the group is turning away from an earlier tie-up with Nerviano.
However, lack of meaningful efficacy in Tropion-Lung01 suggests that datopotamab deruxtecan might be restricted to a histology-defined NSCLC subgroup.