Bristol Myers Squibb Co. reported that its first-in-class oral selective kinase 2 inhibitor, deucravacitinib (formerly BMS-986165), beat out Otezla (apremilast) in a head-to-head phase III trial in psoriasis.
Jounce Therapeutics Inc. has quit enrolling Emerge, an open-label phase II study of its inducible T-cell co-stimulator agonist, vopratelimab, the company’s most advanced candidate.
LONDON – People infected with COVID-19 are likely to have T-cell immunity six months after contracting the virus, according to a U.K. study of 100 subjects who had an asymptomatic or mild to moderate infection.
An interim analysis of Biolinerx Ltd.'s phase III test of motixafortide for stem cell mobilization in multiple myeloma patients has paved what CEO Philip Serlin called the "most efficient path to registration" for the candidate, an antagonist of the chemokine receptor CXCR4.
Despite bad news from a phase I/II dose-escalation trial in relapsed/refractory metastatic pancreatic cancer, Bellicum Pharmaceuticals Inc. is staying in the game, albeit with far fewer employees.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Aligos, Axovant, Bellicum, Biolinerx, Cerevel, Lilly.
With avacopan’s PDUFA date in anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (ANCA vasculitis) set for next summer, Chemocentryx Inc. rolled out long-awaited, COVID-19-delayed top-line findings from the company’s phase II, 390-patient Aurora study testing the compound for hidradenitis suppurativa (HS).