Calithera’s Telaglenastat Doubles PFS In Proof-Of-Concept Study
Executive Summary
The US biotech’s product becomes the first glutaminase inhibitor to show proof of concept. Calithera now awaits data from a larger registrational study next year in renal cell carcinoma.
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