Go or no go? Seagen's Padcev eyes FDA approval

Having caught the eye of Pfizer, Seagen has a crucial accelerated approval decision due next month. The FDA is set to come to a conclusion on Padcev's combination with Keytruda in first line metastatic urothelial cancer, a big commercial opportunity.

Elsewhere Seres is coming after Ferring with its more convenient microbiome product, SER-109, and Pfizer will see whether its Jak3/Tec inhibitor ritlecitinib can get a clean label in alopecia. Lastly Astra and Merck’s Lynparza will be before a panel with the discussion likely to centre on whether the Parp inhibitor can get a broad label in first line castration-resistant prostate cancer.