Can too much success be a bad thing?

Probably not for patients, but for drug companies the overwhelming success of BCMA-targeting therapies is probably going to mean that, despite positive results, some companies are going to lose out to others that put up better ones.

“ASH presentations appear fine but so do all the competitors,” Baird’s Brian Skorney wrote of Regeneron’s results, summing up a cool, widespread enthusiasm.

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Welcome back to Endpoints Weekly, your review of the week’s top biopharma headlines. Want this in your inbox every Saturday morning? Current Endpoints readers can visit their reader profile to add Endpoints Weekly. New to Endpoints? Sign up here.

While this was not a week for earth-shattering news, there were certainly a lot of interesting tidbits. If you found this recap helpful, please recommend it to your friends and colleagues. We’ll see you on the other side of the long weekend.

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As the close runner-up to Amgen’s Lumakras in the KRAS race, any data cut from Mirati’s adagrasib continues to draw scrutiny from analysts. And the latest batch of numbers from ASCO is a decidedly mixed bag.

While a quick comparison suggests that adagrasib spurred slightly more responses and led to a longer overall survival than Lumakras among a group of non-small cell lung cancer patients, its duration of response appears shorter and the safety profile continues to spark concern.

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When Ann saw the first TV commercials for HIV medicine Dovato, she didn’t see herself represented. So the 74-year-old retired school administrator who’s been living with HIV since 1998, reached out to GSK’s ViiV Healthcare and asked why not?

Now Ann is one of three people starring in ViiV’s latest Dovato campaign called “Detect This.” The next-step evolution in the branded campaign plays on the word “detect” — often used in describing HIV status under control as undetectable — but in this case, uses the word as a directive for people to understand they can use fewer medicines.

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As Covid-19 concerns are fading in the US, so is biopharma visibility. The annual Axios Harris Poll survey to determine and rank the 100 most top-of-mind brands in the US finds Moderna, which was No. 3 last year, not on the list at all for 2022, and Pfizer sinking 37 spots.

However, it’s not that Moderna or Pfizer did anything wrong, it’s just that Americans have moved on to other worries beyond Covid.

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Pfizer’s second crack at steering a NASH candidate through a battered field seems to be going better than the first.

The pharma giant has scored the FDA’s fast track designation for an experimental combination therapy as a treatment for NASH with liver fibrosis. The combo consists of ervogastat, a diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 2 inhibitor (DGAT2i), and clesacostat, an acetyl-CoA carboxylase inhibitor (ACCi).

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