The European Commission has granted orphan drug status to CellProtect as a treatment for multiple myeloma, according to the investigational therapy’s developer, CellProtect…
News
An Adaptimmune therapy that strengthens immune T-cells’ response to cancer has helped patients with advanced myeloma live as long as five years without their disease progressing,…
Weighing individual cancer cells could help doctors predict how multiple myeloma patients will respond to treatments, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study reports. The findings could…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Celgene and Bluebird Bio’s bb2121 — the first CAR T-cell therapy for multiple myeloma —…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed to allow two clinical trials of Opdivo (nivolumab)-based combinations for myeloma to resume, after being put on partial…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted Ascentage Pharma‘s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for APG-1387, allowing Ascentage to test the…
MYELOMA
CAR T-cells Targeting Integrin β7 Protein Show Promise in Countering Multiple Myeloma Cells
A Japanese study has found that an active structure of the protein integrin β7 is specific to multiple myeloma cells, suggesting that it could be…
The first patient-led crowdsourcing and crowdfunding initiative for multiple myeloma (MM) research has exceeded its goal of raising $500,000 to advance new…
Janssen Pharmaceuticals has requested the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) add a new indication for Darzalex (daratumumab) in combination with other therapies…
Adaptive Biotechnologies has partnered with Amgen to use Adaptive’s NGS-based clonoSEQ Assay in a Phase 3 clinical trial led by Amgen to…
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