Analysts say the drug could emerge as a potential competitor to Merck’s blockbuster immunotherapy Keytruda. Keytruda is ...

As a wave of patent expirations encroaches upon many of the world’s top drugmakers, companies will need to be diligent in ...

BioNTech said that it is acquiring the Chinese drugmaker Biotheus for $800 million to bolster its cancer strategy. The two ...

BioNTech will make $800mn in upfront payments to Biotheus, a drugmaker based in Guangdong province, with milestone payments of up to $150mn. Uğur Şahin, chief executive of BioNTech, said the company ...

Biotheus’ antibody drug targets PD-L1 and VEGF, a design that’s high on drugmakers’ radars after the success of Summit ...

Finally, the assay can be used with Merck’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab) and GSK’s Jemperli (dostarlimab) across solid tumors ...

For Merck, the drug that concerns investors is Keytruda. The blockbuster cancer drug faces patent expiration in 2028.

Germany-based BioNTech got into the space before the gold rush that was unleashed in September by the news that Akeso and ...

Pivotal Phase 3 trial (IOB-013/KN-D18) evaluating off-the-shelf therapeutic cancer vaccine IO102-IO103 in combination with Merck’s anti-PD-1 ...

The clinical trials are sponsored by IO Biotech and conducted in collaboration with Merck, which is supplying pembrolizumab. IO Biotech maintains global commercial rights to IO102-IO103. IO Biotech is ...

Results from the study, which focused on gynecological malignant tumors, were presented at the Society for Immunotherapy of ...

as monotherapy or in combination with Merck’s (MRK) anti-PD-1 therapy, KEYTRUDA, in patients with advanced solid tumors, at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, held in ...