Patients with a rare and incurable blood cancer, associated with an overproduction of blood cells, will soon have access to a small molecule Novartis treatment.
The small molecule drug Ojjaara (momelotinib), developed by GlaxoSmithKline, has become the first U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved treatment for patients with the blood cancer myelofibrosis and anemia.
The UK startup Intelligent OMICS (Intellomx) has launched a collaboration with Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical company Janssen to use artificial intelligence (AI) to discover drug targets for the treatment of blood cancer.
A single-agent treatment for patients with relapsed or refractory myelodysplastic neoplasms has shown promising results, including overall survival, in a study.