A phase III study investigating Keytruda patients with advanced melanoma met two primary endpoints, demonstrating improvements in progression-free survival and overall survival compared to Yervoy. The study’s independent data monitoring committee recommended stopping the trial early.
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.
