
Novartis’ $650M cash bet on a near-term FDA OK for BeiGene’s China PD-1? It just got delayed indefinitely
A not-so-funny thing happened to Novartis’ high-profile bid to take a PD-1 checkpoint out of China and get it approved in the US this year.
After paying BeiGene $650 million for US-plus ex-China commercialization rights for the drug — the latest in a long string of contenders to follow Keytruda and Opdivo — the FDA is deferring action on their application.
And there’s no new timeline on when the agency will make a decision.
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