Peter Blume-Jensen, Acrivon Therapeutics CEO

Can a small band of bio­phar­ma play­ers suc­ceed where Eli Lil­ly failed? They’re tak­ing a shot

Eli Lil­ly didn’t try to spin any­thing about the mid-stage da­ta they got on their CHK1/CHK2 drug prex­as­ert­ib for ovar­i­an can­cer pa­tients. The drug failed to move the di­al in a sig­nif­i­cant fash­ion and they un­cer­e­mo­ni­ous­ly swept it right out of the pipeline a lit­tle more than 2 years ago.

Usu­al­ly, that would have been it, an­oth­er once-promis­ing drug that didn’t make the cut. We see it reg­u­lar­ly. But a small group of biotech play­ers has come to­geth­er to take an­oth­er crack at a piv­otal play on this drug. And they be­lieve they have the key to mak­ing a suc­cess of it.

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