The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency has adopted a positive opinion recommending the approval of Copiktra as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukaemia after at least two prior therapies and follicular lymphoma that is refractory to at least two prior systemic therapies.
President Joe Biden’s proposed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health would be a welcome partner to NCI—particularly in conducting large, collaborative clinical investigations, NCI Director Ned Sharpless said.“I think having ARPA-H as part of the NIH is good for the NCI,” Sharpless said April 11 in his remarks at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. “How this would fit with the ongoing efforts in cancer at the NCI is still something to work out.”
