The top win­ners and losers on AS­CO ab­stract night: Loxo, Blue­print, Jounce, Mer­ck KGaA and more

Let the joust­ing be­gin.

The big ab­stract drop ahead of AS­CO — the an­nu­al Olympics of can­cer R&D — pro­vid­ed some ear­ly, quick snap­shots that helped dri­ve stocks up or down, or sim­ply pro­vid­ed a chance to tout some po­ten­tial in a hot­ly con­test­ed field.

As more and more bio­phar­ma mon­ey has been in­vest­ed in the on­col­o­gy field in re­cent years, AS­CO has been at­tract­ing a big­ger range of en­trants, and ab­stract night will help de­ter­mine who comes out on top dur­ing the melee ahead. I’ve picked out a few of the most no­tice­able ab­stracts, which you can see be­low.

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