Japan’s health ministry approved a slew of new medicines on September 25 including multiple “first of its kind” products, among them being GlaxoSmithKline’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine Arexvy as well as Eisai’s Alzheimer’s therapy Leqembi (lecanemab).Arexvy became the first…
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Daiichi Sankyo’s HER3 ADC Enters PIII for EGFR-Mutated NSCLC
Daiichi Sankyo said on August 8 that the first patient has been dosed in a global PIII study testing patritumab deruxtecan (HER3-DXd), one of its three lead antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) assets, in certain patients with EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer…
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