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1. New data show VEGF bispecifics could compete with Summit, Akeso drug
2. Merck partner Kelun outlines Phase 3 lung cancer success in China study
3. At ASCO, drugmakers to offer options after Keytruda in head and neck cancer
4. China’s drugmakers to take the stage at ASCO
5. Exclusive: Inside the covert campaign to push out FDA Commissioner Marty Makary
6. Incyte signs AI deals with Genesis and Edison, tapping its experimental data
7. BioMarin to seek further approval of Voxzogo in form of short stature
8. Lilly’s triple agonist still leads among late-stage obesity assets
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Karen Weintraub
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ASCO officially starts next week, but inside today's newsletter, we've got a look at the abstracts released this afternoon. This year is shaping up to be the busiest in recent memory, with important findings coming in VEGF/PD-1 trials, ADCs and pancreatic cancer. There's more to come — and be sure to join us at Endpoints at ASCO '26 on June 3 as we break it all down. Register here.

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Karen Weintraub
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
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by Max Gelman

Much of the at­ten­tion head­ing in­to the an­nu­al AS­CO meet­ing next week has fo­cused on Sum­mit Ther­a­peu­tics and Ake­so’s ple­nary pre­sen­ta­tion for their bis­pe­cif­ic drug...

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by Max Gelman

Mer­ck part­ner Kelun-Biotech fleshed out a Phase 3 win in lung can­cer from a study in Chi­na for the ex­per­i­men­tal an­ti­body-drug con­ju­gate sac-TMT, rais­ing hopes...

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by Ayisha Sharma

Head and neck can­cer has al­ways been a tough nut to crack. These tu­mors can sup­press im­mune re­spons­es through mul­ti­ple path­ways, mean­ing block­ing one of...

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by Lei Lei Wu

It’s no se­cret that Ake­so’s pre­sen­ta­tion will be one of the most close­ly watched read­outs from the Amer­i­can So­ci­ety of Clin­i­cal On­col­o­gy an­nu­al meet­ing this...

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Marty Makary (Aaron Schwartz/Sipa USA/Sipa via AP Images)
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by Max Bayer

Bio­haven CEO Vlad Coric fi­nal­ly had the at­ten­tion of the FDA, and most im­por­tant­ly, Com­mis­sion­er Mar­ty Makary.

In late April, af­ter the com­pa­ny’s spin­ocere­bel­lar atax­ia...

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by Andrew Dunn

Over a 35-year his­to­ry, In­cyte has grown in­to a $19 bil­lion bio­phar­ma com­pa­ny. The Delaware-based drug­mak­er is now turn­ing to AI to pow­er through the...

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