Seattle Genetics, the Bothell, WA-based developer of targeted cancer drugs, said today it had completed enrollment in a trial of 210 patients with acute myeloid leukemia. The study is looking at the company’s SGN-33 drug in combination with a low-dose chemotherapy drug, compared with the chemotherapy drug alone. The main goal of the study is to help people live longer. Seattle Genetics (NASDAQ: [[ticker:SGEN]]) expects to see results by the first half of 2010.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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