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Yale study shows sotigalimab + Opdivo improves outcomes in advanced melanoma

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In findings led by researchers at Yale Cancer Center and collaborating institutions, the monoclonal antibody drug sotigalimab, combined with Bristol Myers Squibb’s immunotherapy drug Opdivo (nivolumab), resulted in tumor shrinkage in patients with advanced melanoma whose tumors had progressed on prior immunotherapy. 

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