The latest drug development news and highlights from the Pink Sheet’s US FDA Performance Tracker

Companies such as Novartis, Roche or Takeda are heavily invested in the advanced therapeutics field, usually spreading their bets across multiple modalities. The remaining challenges offer opportunities for the next wave of innovation to transform the field once again and make a dent in the larger market of common diseases and solid tumors.

Following a year marked by aggressive pricing pressures weighing down on revenues and margins – pressures that “intensified beyond historical norms and our recent expectations,” as one company put it – the first quarter of 2022 provided some green shoots of optimism, albeit for companies that have been able to shift resources to more complex assets.

Biosimilar licensing agreement also includes option on Yervoy-based product. Oxford BioTherapeutics, ImmunoGen pair their technologies for development of novel cancer ADCs.