FDA approves Darzalex Faspro combination for MM

Kennedy announces massive cuts, centralization at HHS—NCI and FDA hit
Also this week: Columbia yields, Makary and Bhattacharya confirmed, tariffs on pharmaceuticals, and more changes impacting oncology

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that it is making sweeping revisions by cutting personnel, centralizing functions, and consolidating divisions.

March 28, 2025

Vol.51 No.12

By Claire Marie Porter and Jacquelyn Cobb

Drugs & Targets

FDA approves cabozantinib for patients 12 and up with pNET and epNET

FDA approved cabozantinib (Cabometyx) for adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older with previously treated, unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic, well-differentiated pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and well-differentiated extra-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.

March 28, 2025

Vol.51 No.12

Drugs & Targets

FDA approves prostate cancer imaging agent Gozellix

FDA approved Gozellix (TLX007-CDx, kit for the preparation of gallium-68 (68Ga) gozetotide injection), a next-generation PSMA-PET imaging agent for prostate cancer.

March 28, 2025

Vol.51 No.12

In Brief

Fenghuang “Frank” Zhan invested in inaugural Bart Barlogie Chair for Myeloma Research

Zhan, seated, with Steven Webber (left), dean of the College of Medicine and executive vice chancellor at UAMS, and UAMS chancellor Cam Patterson (right).The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine invested Fenghuang “Frank” Zhan, a tenured professor of medicine and the research director of the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute’s Myeloma Center, in the Bart Barlogie Chair for Myeloma Research during a March 13 ceremony.

March 21, 2025

Vol.51 No.11

Drugs & Targets

FDA approves Keytruda combination for HER2 positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma expressing PD-L1 (CPS ≥1)

FDA granted traditional approval to Merck’s pembrolizumab (Keytruda) with trastuzumab, fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of adults with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma whose tumors express PD-L1 (CPS ≥1).

March 21, 2025

Vol.51 No.11

Drugs & Targets

FDA grants Orphan Drug designation to rhenium obisbemeda for leptomeningeal metastases in lung cancer

FDA granted Orphan Drug designation to rhenium obisbemeda (186Re) for the treatment of leptomeningeal metastases in patients with lung cancer.

March 14, 2025

Vol.51 No.10

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FDA approves prostate cancer imaging agent Gozellix

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Kennedy announces massive cuts, centralization at HHS—NCI and FDA hit
Also this week: Columbia yields, Makary and Bhattacharya confirmed, tariffs on pharmaceuticals, and more changes impacting oncology

FDA approves Keytruda combination for HER2 positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma expressing PD-L1 (CPS ≥1)