New York, NY – It isn’t often that a single company has an advisory committee meeting for one product and an FDA decision for another in the same week. Even more unusual is when the two drugs are of the same therapeutic class. That’s what’s happening this week for Bristol...
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PRINCETON, N.J. – Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) announced positive topline results from the Phase 3 CheckMate -648 trial evaluating treatment with Opdivo (nivolumab) plus chemotherapy or Opdivo plus Yervoy (ipilimumab) in patients with unresectable advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). In the study, Opdivo plus chemotherapy demonstrated a statistically...
PRINCETON, N.J. – Bristol Myers Squibb on Saturday released results from the Phase III CheckMate -8HW study showing that the combination of its PD-1 inhibitor Opdivo (nivolumab) and its CTLA-4 blocker Yervoy (ipilimumab) improved progression-free survival in certain metastatic colorectal cancer patients when used in the first-line setting. Patients treated...
PRINCETON, N.J. – Bristol Myers Squibb is pulling the plug on a trial investigating what it calls the Opdulag combination, a pairing of Opdivo (nivolumab) and relatlimab, in patients with microsatellite stable metastatic colorectal cancer. In an announcement on Friday, BMS said that data from the Phase III trial of...
Hamburg, Germany – Evotec SE (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EVT, MDAX/TecDAX, ISIN: DE0005664809) today announced that Bristol Myers Squibb has decided to exercise their option to extend its partnership with Evotec in the field of targeted protein degradation. Evotec and Bristol Myers Squibb (the successor in interest to Celgene) initiated this...
PRINCETON, N.J. – Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced results from the Phase 3 CheckMate -648 trial, in which two Opdivo-based treatment combinations — Opdivo (nivolumab) plus chemotherapy and Opdivo plus Yervoy (ipilimumab) — demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful overall survival (OS) benefit compared to chemotherapy at...
PRINCETON, N.J. – Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY) today announced that additional data from multiple studies evaluating Zeposia (ozanimod) in ulcerative colitis (UC) were presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW), taking place virtually May 21-23, 2021. These data deepen the understanding of Zeposia and reinforce Bristol Myers Squibb’s commitment to understanding...
PRINCETON, N.J. – Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced that the European Commission (EC) has granted full Marketing Authorization for Onureg® (azacitidine tablets) as a maintenance therapy in adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who achieved complete remission (CR) or complete remission with incomplete blood count recovery (CRi) following induction therapy...
PRINCETON, N.J. – Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended granting Conditional Marketing Authorization for Abecma (idecabtagene vicleucel; ide-cel), the company’s B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy, for the treatment of...
PRINCETON, N.J. — Bristol Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) today announced the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended marketing authorization approval of Abecma® (idecabtagene vicleucel; ide-cel) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma who have...