MEI Pharma and Infinity Pharmaceuticals inks merger agreement to advance three promising clinical oncology candidates

Projected ~US$100 million cash balance of combined company expected to fund operations through mid-2025 and to clinical data over the next 12 to 24 months

Moderna and Merck announce investigational personalized cancer vaccine mRNA-4157/V940

Designation based on positive data from Phase 2b KEYNOTE-942/mRNA-4157-P201 trial

Moderna announces advances across mRNA pipeline

Moderna and Merck announced mRNA-4157/V940, in combination with KEYTRUDA, demonstrated a 44% reduction in the risk of disease recurrence or death in melanoma patients

Astellas, Seagen and Merck announce FDA acceptance of sBLA for PADCEV for urothelial cancer

This combination has the potential to be the first treatment option combining an antibody-drug conjugate plus an immunotherapy in this treatment setting

Moderna and Merck announce personalized mRNA cancer vaccine

Results are the first demonstration of efficacy for an investigational mRNA cancer treatment in a randomized clinical trial

Merck to present data from Its hematology portfolio ASH meeting

Presentations include new data on investigational medicines – favezelimab (MK-4280), zilovertamab vedotin (MK-2140) and nemtabrutinib – as well as KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab) in multiple blood cancers

Merck’s pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy showed sustained survival benefit versus chemotherapy alone

In first-line metastatic NSCLC, KEYTRUDA-based regimens have now shown a five-year survival benefit in four trials

Merck to present new data of oncology portfolio at ESMO 2022

Longer-term survival results underscoring role of KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab) in multiple cancer types, including advanced nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (KEYNOTE-189)

Merck updates on Phase 3 Keynote-412 trial in advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Merck’s pembrolizumab demonstrates improvement in distant metastasis

Immune-mediated events and infusion reactions were higher with KEYTRUDA (38% vs 9%, respectively).