Amgen said the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency has adopted a positive opinion recommending a label variation for Kyprolis (carfilzomib) to include updated overall survival data from the phase III head-to-head ENDEAVOR trial in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (Kyprolis and dexamethasone versus Velcade [bortezomib] and dexamethasone).
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.
