Keyword: immunotherapy

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German Merck Licenses Fusion Protein to PDS

10.01.2023 -

Germany‘s Merck has granted an exclusive license for the tumor-targeting IL-12 fusion protein currently known as M9241 to PDS Biotechnology Corporation, a US-based...

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ABL Inks Immunotherapeutics Pact with KaliVir

19.07.2022 -

US-based ABL, which bills itself as a pure play CDMO specialized in the development and manufacturing of viruses for vaccine candidates, gene and cancer therapies, is...

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BioNTech Collaborations Move Beyond Vaccines

13.01.2022 -

Up to now, the name BioNTech has popped up mostly in one breath with Pfizer, the company’s US partner in developing the mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine marketed as Comirnaty...

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AstraZeneca and Transgene Link on Immunotherapy

08.05.2019 - Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca is to collaborate with French biotech Transgene, part of Institut Mérieux, to discover and develop immunotherapies for treating cancers and...

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Eli Lilly and Nektar Develop Autoimmune Therapy

31.07.2017 - US pharma companies Eli Lilly and Nektar Therapeutics have signed an agreement to jointly develop the latter’s novel immunotherapy, NKTR-358, which could potentially treat a number...

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US Merck Halts Trial Enrollment After Deaths

14.06.2017 - US pharmaceutical giant Merck has announced it is suspending new enrollments in two phase 3 multiple myeloma studies with its blockbuster immunotherapy drug Keytruda (pembrolizumab...

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FDA Halts Cancer Trial After Deaths

14.07.2016 - The US Food and Drug Administration has ordered Juno Therapeutics to suspend its Phase II immunotherapy trials with adult patients suffering from relapsed or refractory B cell...

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New Immunotherapy Coalition Launched in US

13.01.2016 - Five major internationally active drugmakers, including American biotech firms Amgen and Celgene, along with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and non-US players such as Glaxo SmithKline...