November 19, 2015 Off

Lilly and Merck move on with oncology clinical trial of and Keytruda

By Dino Mustafić

Eli Lilly and Merck are moving on with an existing oncology clinical trial collaboration to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the combination of Lilly’s Almita (pemetrexed for injection) and Merck’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab) in a pivotal Phase III study in first-line nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).