Ambitions for Checkpoint Therapeutics' EGFR inhibitor

13 August 2018

There has been a steady drumbeat of failure in the race to develop a third-generation EGFR inhibitor to compete with Tagrisso(osimertinib) from AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN) in an around $5 billion market.

Now Checkpoint Therapeutics, a Fortress Biotech (Nasdaq: FBIO) company, is gaining visibility. Checkpoint announced today that Phase I/II data from its third-generation EGFR inhibitor CK-101 has been selected for a late-breaking oral presentation at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer’s 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer, to be held September 23-26.

Other Big Pharmas have tried their hand at a third-generation therapy, but all real competition has failed:

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