Roche and Biogen Idec halt ocrelizumab RA development on infection data and deaths
08 March 2010
Katie McQue
Development of
Roche and
Biogen Idec's humanised anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody ocrelizumab for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been halted after patients in clinical trials suffered serious opportunistic infections, some of which were fatal. The drug is also in Phase II development for relapsing-remitting...
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