Vivek Subbiah: First ADC tissue agnostic drug approved!

Quoting Vivek Subbiah’s post on LinkedIn:

“Just in time for American Association for Cancer Research AACR24. Another major milestone in Tissue Agnostic Precision Medicine. First Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) tissue agnostic drug approved!

FDA grants accelerated approval to fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive solid tumors.”

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Source: Vivek Subbiah/LinkedIn

Vivek Subbiah is the Chief of Early-Phase Drug Development at the Sarah Cannon Research Institute (USA). He is the former Executive Director of Oncology Research at the MD Anderson Cancer Network and a former Associate Professor in the Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Vivek Subbiah has served as the principal investigator in over 100 phase I/II trials and co-investigator in over 200 clinical trials and is known for his leadership in several first-in-human and practice-changing studies that directly led to approvals from the FDA, European Medicines Agency, and other agencies across the world. He is an expert in tumor agnostic precision oncology and leads the BRAF and RET tissue agnostic studies to FDA approval.