Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, today announced that Keytruda (pembrolizumab), Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, received four new approvals from Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. The indications included TNBC, renal cell carcinoma, cervical cancer, and melanoma.
Physician-scientists by day, a funk-loving musical troupe by night. You may have seen The CheckPoints—a 13 member cover band with a three-piece brass section and Jim Allison on harmonica—movin’, groovin’, and gettin’ down as a mainstay closing act at ASCO, AACR, or the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer annual meetings.
