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Opdivo: The Hard Way to Birth (A)

2023· other· en· W7132609271 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueCEIBS Institutional Repository · 2023
Typeother
Languageen
Field
Topic
Canadian institutionsCentre Casa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMultinational corporationBiopharmaceuticalFoundation (evidence)Intellectual propertyPharmaceutical industry
DOInot available

Abstract

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This case tells the saga of the famous anticancer drugs Opdivo and Yervoy and their contribution to creating a new treatment category of immuno-oncology. In 1987, the French immunologist Pierre Golstain discovered and cloned the CTLA-4 gene. In 1992, Tasuku Honjo, a professor at Kyoto University in Japan, found a protein called PD-1 on the surface of T cells in mice. These two findings laid the initial foundation for immune checkpoint theory and checkpoint blockade therapy. Many pharmaceutical companies and scientists have invested much time, money, and energy to develop a new generation of tumor immunotherapy on these two cornerstones. However, developing a new drug is fraught with uncertainty, and any progress is a matter of trial and error. Opdivo and Yervoy's "predecessors" have endured many such fates; luckily, they survived through scientists' best efforts each time. Since 2007, the multinational pharmaceutical company BMS has launched a "String of Pearls" M&A strategy. This strategy seeks to gradually integrate external innovation and expand its own capabilities through small and medium acquisitions, avoiding large acquisitions. BMS has cast a wide net over small and medium-sized research and development (R&D) biopharmaceutical firms. They don't care that most of the beads they catch are small or even worthless as long as there are one or two large beads with commercial value. In 2009 BMS launched a takeover bid for Medarex, a mid-sized pharmaceutical company. BMS was interested in the CTLA-4 antibody project ipilimumab (the "predecessor" of Yervoy) in the Medarex R&D pipeline. A Medarex scientist (Nils Lonberg) was more bullish on the PD-1 antibody project Nivolumab (the "predecessor" of Opdivo), which was in phase I clinical trials. He reminded Medarex's management to allocate more value to this project in negotiations. However, Nivolumab, which needed to be taken more seriously, was almost half bought and given to BMS. Because of the considerable uncertainty in the R&D of new drugs, the acquisition is often like a game of guessing beads. Everything is in a blind box waiting to be opened. What kind of pearls will BMS get after opening the blind box?

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.067
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.067

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.257
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2023
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