In­nate shares crushed on sec­ond big set­back for Bris­tol-My­ers part­nered lir­ilum­ab

In­nate Phar­ma is suf­fer­ing through its sec­ond big set­back of the year on its lead can­cer drug lir­ilum­ab. Back in Feb­ru­ary the French biotech was forced to con­cede that lir­ilum­ab was no bet­ter than a place­bo in fight­ing acute myeloid leukemia. And just be­fore Thanks­giv­ing re­searchers con­ced­ed that the drug com­bined with Bris­tol-My­ers Squibb’s Op­di­vo (nivolum­ab) al­so flopped, this time in a study fo­cused on squa­mous cell car­ci­no­ma of the head and neck.

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