Eisai submitted a Marketing Authorization Application to the European Medicines Agency for the use of lenvatinib in combination with everolimus to treat people with unresectable advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma who have received one prior vascular endothelial growth factor-targeted therapy.
Sorrento Therapeutics Inc. formed a partnership with the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, to perform immuno-oncology research and to develop new natural killer cell-based therapies.
FDA granted Priority Review to venetoclax for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia in adults who have received at least one prior therapy, including patients with 17p deletion.
FDA granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to an epidermal growth factor receptor mutant-specific tyrosine kinase inhibitor, BI 1482694 (HM61713).
Guardant Health and Mirati Therapeutics Inc. entered into a collaboration for the development of a circulating tumor DNA assay for Mirati's kinase inhibitor, glesatinib.
MD Anderson Cancer Center and Kymab announced a partnership in immuno-oncology research.
FDA approved Opdivo (nivolumab) injection for the treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma who have received prior anti-angiogenic therapy.
FDA approved Bendeka (bendamustine hydrochloride) injection, a 10-minute infusion formulation of bendamustine.
Amgen entered into a definitive agreement with GSK to reacquire all of its remaining rights to Prolia (denosumab), XGEVA (denosumab) and Vectibix (panitumumab) in 48 countries in Asia, South America, Europe, Australia and other regions.
Stem Cell Theranostics and CapellaBio established a cardio-oncology collaboration to discover novel drug therapies to prevent cardiotoxicity associated with various oncology drugs.
