Bristol Myers scraps $2B Nektar partnership after trial failures

Bristol Myers scraps $2B Nektar partnership after trial failures

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BioPharma Dive
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Bristol Myers Squibb and Nektar Therapeutics are ending an immunotherapy partnership, announcing Thursday they will cease all work pairing Bristol Myers' Opdivo with an experimental Nektar drug following setbacks in kidney and bladder cancer. The announcement comes one month after the combination also failed in melanoma.