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Biotech / Medical : Incyte (INCY)
INCY 106.00+0.8%Nov 7 9:30 AM EST

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From: scaram(o)uche10/6/2014 8:53:33 AM
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cool.....

news.bms.com

Bristol-Myers Squibb Announces Collaboration to Evaluate Opdivo (nivolumab) in Combination with Targeted Therapies from Novartis to Treat Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

Studies will evaluate Bristol-Myers Squibb’s investigational PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor Opdivo (nivolumab) in combination with Novartis’ Zykadia (ceritinib), INC280 and EGF816

Monday, October 6, 2014 8:00 am EDT

NEW YORK--( BUSINESS WIRE)-- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company(NYSE:BMY) announced today the establishment of a clinical trial collaboration to evaluate the safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of combining Bristol-Myers Squibb’s investigational PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor Opdivo(nivolumab) with three molecularly targeted oncology therapies (Zykadia (ceritinib), INC280 and EGF816) from Novartis (NYSE: NVS). Novartis will conduct two Phase 1/2 studies focused on non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

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Can't begin to imagine why anti-PD1 and c-met inhibition would be synergistic. Must be apparent from literature, haven't poked.

edit: maybe a signal detected here......

clinicaltrials.gov
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