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Table 4 Overview of PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors with active clinical trials

From: Pembrolizumab

Compound

Developing company

Most advanced stage of development by cancer type

PD-1

Pembrolizumab (MK-3475, SCH 900475)

Merck & Co.

• Approved (various countries): advanced melanoma

• Phase III: head and neck cancer; melanoma; NSCLC; urothelial cancer; gastric/gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma

• Phase II: colorectal cancer; Merkel cell cancer; multiple myeloma; mycosis fungoides or Sezary syndrome; prostate cancer; soft tissue sarcoma; bone sarcoma; GBM; mesothelioma; Hodgkin lymphoma; non-Hodgkin lymphoma (DLBCL); breast cancer; small cell lung cancer; bladder cancer; thymic carcinoma; renal cell cancer; pancreatic cancer; chronic lymphocytic leukemia

• Phase I: advanced solid tumors; myelodysplastic syndrome; pontine gliomas; ovarian cancer

Nivolumab (BMS-936558, MDX1106, ONO-4538)

Bristol-Myers Squibb/Ono Pharmaceutical

• Approved (various countries): advanced melanoma; previously treated squamous cell NSCLC

• Phase III: gastric cancer; GBM; head and neck cancer; melanoma; NSCLC; renal cell carcinoma

• Phase II: acute myeloid leukemia; anal carcinoma; B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma; cervical cancer; follicular lymphoma; Hodgkin lymphoma; nasopharyngeal carcinoma; chronic lymphocytic leukemia; pancreatic adenocarcinoma; urothelial cancer; myelofibrosis

• Phase I: advanced solid tumors; breast cancer; chronic myeloid leukemia; colorectal cancer; DLBCL; Ewing sarcoma; hepatocellular carcinoma; multiple myeloma; osteosarcoma; ovarian cancer; rhabdomyosarcoma

Pidilizumab (CT-011)

Curetech

• Phase II: acute myelogenous leukemia; follicular lymphoma; multiple myeloma; pancreatic cancer; prostate cancer; renal cell carcinoma

• Phase I: glioma

AMP-224

Amplimmune/ GlaxoSmithKline

• Phase I: colorectal cancer

AMP-514 (MEDI0680)

Amplimmune

• Phase I: advanced malignancies; B-cell lymphomas

REGN2810

Regeneron

• Phase I: advanced malignancies

PD-L1

MPDL3280A

Genentech/Roche

• Phase III: NSCLC; urothelial cancer; renal cell carcinoma; breast cancer

• Phase II: colorectal cancer

• Phase I: advanced solid tumors; DLBCL; follicular lymphoma; melanoma

MEDI4736

Medimmune/AstraZeneca

• Phase III: NSCLC; head and neck cancer

• Phase II: colorectal cancer; GBM

• Phase I: advanced solid tumors; B-cell lymphoma; cervical cancer; gastric/gastroesophageal junction cancer; melanoma; myelodysplastic syndrome; breast cancer; pancreatic cancer

BMS-936559 (MDX-1105)

Bristol-Myers Squibb

• Phase I: advanced solid tumors

MSB0010718C

Merck Serono

• Phase III: NSCLC

• Phase II: Merkel cell carcinoma

• Phase I: advanced solid tumors

  1. Information derived from ClinicalTrials.gov (access date: April 28, 2015)
  2. Abbreviations: DLBCL diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; GBM glioblastoma multiforme; NSCLC non-small cell lung cancer; PD-1 programmed death receptor 1; PD-L1 programmed death receptor ligand 1