Cowen Cuts Abbvie (ABBV) to Market Perform; Analyst Calls Rova-T Data at ASCO 'Underwhelming'

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AbbVie Presents Encouraging Phase 1 Data for Investigational Medicine ABT-414 as Monotherapy in Patients with an Aggressive Brain Cancer at the 2016 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meetin

June 5, 2016 9:00 AM EDT

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., June 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced safety and preliminary efficacy data from a Phase 1 study of ABT-414 an investigational antibody drug conjugate (ADC) for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) amplified, recurrent glioblastoma (GBM) showed no dose-limiting toxicities and frequent, reversible ocular toxicities. Additionally, an estimated 30 percent (n=44) of patients treated with ABT-414 as monotherapy were progression free at six months [95% CI=17, 44] (secondary endpoint). These results, from an expansion cohort of one arm (Arm C) of a three-arm open-label study, were... More

Results of Phase 1a/1b Study of AbbVie's Investigational Medicine Rovalpituzumab Tesirine (Rova-T) Showed Overall Response Rate of 39 Percent in Pretreated Patients with Biomarker-Defined Small Cell L

June 5, 2016 7:30 AM EDT

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., June 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced that treatment with rovalpituzumab tesirine (Rova-T), a delta-like protein 3 (DLL3)-targeted antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), demonstrated a confirmed overall response rate (ORR) of 39 percent and clinical benefit rate (stable disease or better) of 89 percent in patients with recurrent or refractory small cell lung cancer (SCLC), identified with high expression of DLL3. Rova-T demonstrated a one-year overall survival (OS) rate of 32 percent in the recurrent/refractory second- and third-line patient population. These new data were... More