Array BioPharma Inc. announced updated safety and efficacy results, including mature overall survival, from the safety lead-in of the phase III BEACON CRC trial evaluating the triplet combination of Braftovi (encorafenib), a BRAF inhibitor, Mektovi (binimetinib), a MEK inhibitor and Erbitux (cetuximab), an anti-EGFR antibody, in patients with BRAFV600E-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer.
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.
