Keyword: PD-L1

AstraZeneca

6. AstraZeneca

by Ben Adams
AstraZeneca had a pretty rough few years of R&D setbacks and failures up until 2012, when its former chief, David Brennan, was all but pushed out as a result. But things seem to have steadied somewhat since Pascal Soriot took the helm.
Merck building

5. Merck

by Ben Adams
Merck had a major trial win last fall when its marketed checkpoint inhibitor Keytruda scored in first-line lung cancer patients. Just a few weeks later, it was given the nod from the FDA in this key, lucrative setting.
Roche

1. Roche

by Ben Adams
Roche is a big R&D spender, forking out CHF 11.53 billion ($11.42 billion) last year. Although at 22.8% of its total revenue, it’s not quite top in terms of percentages.

BET inhibitor tamps down PD-L1 activity in ovarian cancer cells

by Amirah Al Idrus
Wistar Institute scientists have found a class of drugs that effectively dampened PD-L1 activity in ovarian cancer, even though it does not directly target PD-L1. Called bromodomain and extraterminal domain (BET) inhibitors, multiple candidates are in clinical trials for other cancers.