As Jounce’s Vopratelimab Fails, Door Opens For LILRB2 Inhibitor JTX-8064
Executive Summary
Vopratelimab is the second major ICOS agonist program to fail since GSK halted studies of feladilimab last year, but an analyst pinned higher hopes on JTX-8064.
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