Bris­tol-My­ers claims the lead in a race to de­vel­op a TYK2 drug, hop­ing to dis­rupt a huge mar­ket for an­ti-in­flam­ma­to­ries

Bris­tol-My­ers Squibb’s TYK2 team has been show­ing off some Phase II da­ta they be­lieve puts them in the run­ning for leader of a small but promi­nent pack of de­vel­op­ers look­ing to ad­vance a new class of an­ti-in­flam­ma­to­ries that aim at pen­e­trat­ing some very big mar­kets.

As pub­lished in the New Eng­land Jour­nal of Med­i­cine and pre­sent­ed at the 27th Eu­ro­pean Acad­e­my of Der­ma­tol­ogy and Ven­erol­o­gy Con­gress in Paris, Bris­tol-My­ers’ ef­fort for BMS-986165 pro­duced some com­pet­i­tive re­sults in a key mid-stage study for mod­er­ate-to-se­vere plaque pso­ri­a­sis — a packed field where JAK in­hibitors have been mak­ing waves.

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