An ex­plo­sion of PD-1/L1 check­point stud­ies is crowd­ing the in­dus­try pipeline — and that’s a prob­lem

WASH­ING­TON, DC — The Can­cer Re­search In­sti­tute has been do­ing the math on the PD-1/L1 check­point pipeline, and you might not be­lieve what we’re see­ing now in terms of clin­i­cal re­search pro­grams.

In a dis­cus­sion here at the So­ci­ety for Im­munother­a­py of Can­cer meet­ing, Samir Khleif, an im­muno-on­col­o­gist and SITC board mem­ber, laid out the num­bers from the CRI.

With 5 check­points on the mar­ket, there are now 164 dif­fer­ent check­point ther­a­pies be­ing stud­ied from the pre­clin­i­cal through late-stage phase. There are three more right now in Phase III — REGN-2810 from Sanofi/Re­gen­eron, PDR001 from No­var­tis and INC­SHR-1210 from In­cyte/Jiang­su Hen­grui — and 9 in Phase II.

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