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Blood Clot Risk Causes Lilly, Bristol to Halt Enrollment in Erbitux Follow-on Trial
Blood Clot Risk Causes Lilly, Bristol to Halt Enrollment in Erbitux Follow-on Trial
J Haas
20110102
2011 Feb 2
The Pink Sheet Daily
Blood Clot Risk Causes Lilly, Bristol to Halt Enrollment in Erbitux Follow-on Trial
The Pink Sheet Daily. 2011 Feb 2, J Haas
Roughly one year after Eli Lilly and Bristol-Myers Squibb resolved their dispute over rights to the Erbitux follow-on necitumumab, the two pharmas co-developing the antibody got the bad news that it was increasing the risk of blood clots in one of two pivotal Phase III trials. Lilly and Bristol announced Feb. 2 that they have stopped enrolling patients for the INSPIRE trial in non-squamous, non-small cell lung cancer. In January 2010, the two companies ended a fight over which firm controlled development...