NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., July 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced the initiation of a Phase 3 clinical trial to study the safety and efficacy of venetoclax in combination with bortezomib and dexamethasone in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who are considered sensitive or naïve to proteasome inhibitors and have received one to three prior lines of therapy. The combination of venetoclax, bortezomib and dexamethasone will be compared to treatment with bortezomib, dexamethasone and placebo.¹ Bortezomib, a proteasome inhibitor, and dexamethasone, a corticosteroid, are both common therapies used to treat symptomatic multiple myeloma.³  

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. and NEW YORK, July 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) today announced a clinical trial collaboration to evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of AbbVie's investigational biomarker-specific antibody drug conjugate Rova-T (rovalpituzumab tesirine) in combination with Bristol-Myers Squibb's Opdivo (nivolumab) and Opdivo + Yervoy (ipilimumab) regimen as a treatment for relapsed extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC).

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., July 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for ABT-414, an investigational antibody drug conjugate (ADC) targeting the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), for the treatment of pediatric patients with EGFR-amplified Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), known to be highly aggressive and difficult to treat brain tumors found at the base of the brain.¹

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, will present data on its investigational medicine venetoclax, a B-cell lymphoma -2 (BCL-2) inhibitor, and duvelisib, an investigational phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)-delta and PI3K-gamma inhibitor, at the 21^st European Hematology Association (EHA) Annual Congress, June 9-12, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Data will be presented in some of the most common hematological malignancies, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), multiple myeloma (MM), acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and follicular lymphoma.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., June 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced safety and preliminary efficacy data from a Phase 1 study of ABT-414 – an investigational antibody drug conjugate (ADC) for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) amplified, recurrent glioblastoma (GBM) – showed no dose-limiting toxicities and frequent, reversible ocular toxicities. Additionally, an estimated 30 percent (n=44) of patients treated with ABT-414 as monotherapy were progression free at six months [95% CI=17, 44] (secondary endpoint). These results, from an expansion cohort of one arm (Arm C) of a three-arm open-label study, were presented today at the 52^nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago.¹  Amplified EGFR is the most common genetic mutation associated with malignant GBM, an aggressive brain cancer.²

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., June 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- At an R&D Day meeting today for the investment community, AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, will present an overview of its innovative pipeline that reinforces AbbVie's strategy of delivering new therapies that significantly advance and reset the standard of care. Many current therapies in oncology, immunology, virology, neuroscience and women's health are insufficient in meeting the medical needs of patients. In addition, many of the diseases in these therapeutic areas are debilitating, life-threatening and cause a significant burden on healthcare systems around the world.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., May 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, will present data from multiple clinical trials evaluating the company's portfolio of approved and investigational oncology medicines during the 52^nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), June 3-7, in Chicago. Notably, researchers will present data from studies evaluating Venclexta™ (venetoclax), a BCL-2 inhibitor being developed by AbbVie and Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, and IMBRUVICA^® (ibrutinib), an inhibitor of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK), across multiple hematologic malignancies.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., May 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) will participate in the UBS Global Healthcare Conference on Monday, May 23, 2016. Bill Chase, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will participate in a question and answer session at 1:00 p.m. Central time.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., May 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated the IMBRUVICA® (ibrutinib) Prescribing Information (PI) to include new data from two Phase 3 trials supporting its expanded use in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL).[1] The label now includes overall survival (OS) results in previously-untreated CLL/SLL patients from the Phase 3 RESONATE^TM-2 (PCYC-1115) trial.