FDA has granted orphan drug designation to M7824, the first regulatory designation for the bifunctional immunotherapy, for the treatment of biliary tract cancer. The designation follows the recent presentation of the first clinical data for M7824 in BTC at the European Society of Medical Oncology congress in October.
With major leadership changes, grant disruptions and terminations, and a stoked distrust in science, Steven Artandi, the director of Stanford Cancer Center, worries that young investigators will feel disenchanted by the U.S. research atmosphere and take their work and study elsewhere.
