Pfizer and Merck to Collaborate on Study Evaluating Novel Anti-Cancer Combination Regimen

Dateline City: WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. Agreement to Combine Merck’s Investigational Anti-PD-1 Antibody Pembrolizumab and Pfizer’s crizotinib (XALKORI®) in Clinical Trial WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. – Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) and Merck & Co. Inc. (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, through a subsidiary, announced today that they have entered into an agreement to explore the therapeutic potential of the combination of Pfizer’s crizotinib (XALKORI®) with Merck’s investigational anti-PD-1 antibody pembrolizumab, in a Phase 1b clinical study evaluating the safety and tolerability of the combination in patients with ALK-positive advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Language: English read more
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