Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

Lilly Strengthens IBD Treatment Portfolio with Morphic Acquisition Eli Lilly and Company and Morphic Holding, Inc. announced a definitive agreement for Lilly to acquire Morphic, a biopharmaceutical company developing oral integrin therapies for serious chronic diseases. Lilly will initiate a tender offer to acqu...

ENHERTU lies at the core of AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s objectives for advancing in oncology. This collaboration has notably broadened the antibody-drug conjugates impact in the United States. On April 5, 2024, the FDA approved ENHERTU to treat HER2-positive solid tumors in adults who have received previous sy...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in both men and women around the world. It is expected that 127K people will die from this disease in the United States in 2023 (67K men and 60K women).  NSCLC is the most common type of lung cancer, accounting for over 85% of all cases. As per DelveInsight anal...

FDA Approves RINVOQ as a Once-Daily Pill for Moderately to Severely Active Crohn's Disease AbbVie announced that the FDA had approved RINVOQ® (upadacitinib) for treating people with moderately to highly active Crohn's disease who have had an unsatisfactory response or intolerance to one or more TNF blockers. Thi...

FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation to AUM302 for Neuroblastoma A global clinical-stage biotech company, AUM Biosciences, focused on discovering and developing precision oncology therapeutics, declared that the U.S. FDA has permitted Orphan Drug Designation for AUM302. For the treatment of neuroblastoma, AUM302 i...

C4X Discovery Holdings and AstraZeneca Signs Exclusive USD 402 Million Global License C4X Discovery Holdings has signed an exclusive global license with AstraZeneca worth up to USD 402 million for the development and commercialization of the NRF2 Activator program. The agreement will allow AstraZeneca to develop...

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common cancer, accounting for approximately 85% of the total lung cancers in the United States. Almost 230K new cases were diagnosed in 2022 alone. Moreover, significant deaths were recorded at the end of the same year, accounting for almost 130K deaths. As per DelveIn...

Lung Cancer presents a heavy health and economic burden in Asia, being the most common form of cancer, with 60% of the world’s lung cancers being diagnosed there. Lung cancer is also present in more than 30% of non-smokers in Asia, specifically in adenocarcinomas, which is a subtype largely defined by oncogenic dri...

Genentech’s gantenerumab Fails in Phase III Trial for Alzheimer’s Disease In yet another setback for an amyloid-targeting drug, Roche's Genentech division has reported disappointing top-line results from its highly anticipated phase III trial of gantenerumab in early Alzheimer's disease. The failure is entirely ...

Merck’s Sotatercept Clears Phase III Trial Merck’s USD 11.5 billion acquisition of Acceleron last year was based on the promise of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) candidate sotatercept, which has recently met the mark in a much-anticipated phase III trial. The STELLAR trial found that adding the activin re...