AD­Cs in the pipeline: FDA spells out clin­i­cal phar­ma­col­o­gy musts for spon­sors

The mar­ket for an­ti­body drug con­ju­gates, or AD­Cs, is heat­ing up, and the FDA on Mon­day sought to of­fer some guid­ance based on its past ex­pe­ri­ence with ADC de­vel­op­ment pro­grams in on­col­o­gy by of­fer­ing new draft guid­ance on clin­i­cal phar­ma­col­o­gy con­sid­er­a­tions for AD­Cs in par­tic­u­lar.

So far, 12 AD­Cs for var­i­ous can­cer tar­gets have won FDA ap­proval, with some heavy-hit­ters com­ing to mar­ket more re­cent­ly, like Roche’s Kad­cy­la, which has al­ready reached block­buster sta­tus. Oth­er com­pa­nies like Seagen have be­come lead­ers in ADC de­vel­op­ment, with 8 AD­Cs in their pipeline, while oth­ers like J&J laid some size­able re­cent bets on AD­Cs mov­ing for­ward.

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