Avelumab - Merck KGaA
Alternative Names: Anti-CD274-monoclonal-antibody; Anti-PD-L1 monoclonal antibody - EMD Serono; Anti-PD-L1 monoclonal antibody - Merck KGaA; BAVENCIO; MSB-0010718C; PF-06834635Latest Information Update: 02 Jul 2024
At a glance
- Originator EMD Serono; Merck Biopharma; Merck KGaA
- Developer 4SC; AIO Studien gGmbH; Array BioPharma; Baylor College of Medicine; Chong Kun Dang; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Debiopharm; eFFECTOR Therapeutics; EMD Serono; Forty Seven; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; G1 Therapeutics; Gachon University Gil Medical Center; Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group; Hoosier Cancer Research Network; Hospices Civils de Lyon; Istituto Oncologico Veneto; Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz; M. D. Anderson Cancer Center; Merck Biopharma; Merck KGaA; National Cancer Institute (USA); Netherlands Cancer Institute; Pfizer; Seoul National University Hospital; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins; Syndax Pharmaceuticals; Transgene; University College London; University of Birmingham; University of California, San Diego; University of Iowa; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Padua; Vaccinex; Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; VAXIMM; Verastem Oncology; Washington University School of Medicine
- Class Antineoplastics; Immunotherapies; Monoclonal antibodies
- Mechanism of Action Antibody-dependent cell cytotoxicity; Programmed cell death-1 ligand-1 inhibitors; T lymphocyte stimulants
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Orphan Drug Status
Orphan designation is assigned by a regulatory body to encourage companies to develop drugs for rare diseases.
- New Molecular Entity Yes
Highest Development Phases
- Marketed Merkel cell carcinoma; Renal cell carcinoma; Urogenital cancer
- Phase III Colorectal cancer; Diffuse large B cell lymphoma; Gastric cancer; Head and neck cancer; Oesophageal cancer; Ovarian cancer; Solid tumours; Triple negative breast cancer
- Phase II Bladder cancer; Breast cancer; Endometrial cancer; Fallopian tube cancer; Gastrointestinal cancer; Germ cell and embryonal neoplasms; Germ cell cancer; Gestational trophoblastic disease; Glioblastoma; Haemangiosarcoma; HER2 negative breast cancer; HER2 positive breast cancer; Hodgkin's disease; Intestinal cancer; Leiomyosarcoma; Liver cancer; Lymphoma; Malignant thymoma; Nasopharyngeal cancer; Neuroendocrine tumours; Non-small cell lung cancer; Osteosarcoma; Penile cancer; Peripheral T-cell lymphoma; Peritoneal cancer; Prostate cancer; Rectal cancer; Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis; Small cell lung cancer; Squamous cell cancer; Testicular cancer; Thymoma
- Phase I/II Anal cancer; Bone metastases; Cervical cancer; Liposarcoma; Oropharyngeal cancer; Pancreatic cancer; Vulvovaginal cancer
- Phase I CNS cancer; Follicular lymphoma
- No development reported Acute myeloid leukaemia; Meningioma
Most Recent Events
- 28 Jun 2024 Efficacy data from the phase III A-BRAVE trial in Triple-negative-breast cancer presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO-2024)
- 26 Jun 2024 Pfizer completes the phase III JAVELIN Renal 101 trial in Renal cell carcinoma (Combination therapy, Late-stage disease, Metastatic disease, First-line therapy) in USA, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and the UK. (IV) (NCT02684006)
- 24 Jun 2024 EMD Serono terminates a phase I/II trial in Solid tumours and Lymphoma (Second-line therapy or greater, In adolescents, In children, In infants, In neonates) in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, South Korea, USA based on the limited activity observed with avelumab monotherapy (NCT03451825)