NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Nov. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global research and development-based biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the American Society of Hematology (ASH) has accepted data from the Phase 3 MURANO study evaluating venetoclax tablets in combination with rituximab in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (R/R CLL), as an oral, late-breaking presentation during the upcoming 59^th ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition, December 9-12, in Atlanta, GA. The abstract is one of six late-breaking abstracts accepted for presentation at the meeting.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. and SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, and Harpoon Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing novel T-cell recruiting biologic therapies, announced today that they have entered an immuno-oncology research collaboration. The goal of the collaboration is to incorporate Harpoon's tri-specific T-cell activating construct (TriTAC™) platform with AbbVie's research-stage immuno-oncology targets to develop novel cancer therapeutics.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. and NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) today announced a clinical trial collaboration to evaluate the combination of AbbVie's investigational antibody drug conjugate ABBV-399 and Bristol-Myers Squibb's immunotherapy Opdivo (nivolumab) in c-Met overexpressing non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). 

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global research and development-based biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the Phase 3 MURANO study of VENCLEXTA™/VENCLYXTO™ (Venetoclax) Tablets in combination with Rituxan® (rituximab) met its primary endpoint. Results showed that VENCLEXTA/VENCLYXTO in combination with Rituxan prolonged progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) compared with bendamustine combined with Rituxan. An independent data monitoring committee reviewed this study and made the recommendation to unblind the trial based on the positive results. Doctors will continue to monitor patients who remain active in the MURANO trial in efforts to obtain additional, longer-term safety and efficacy information. VENCLEXTA/VENCLYXTO is being developed by AbbVie and Roche. It is jointly commercialized by AbbVie and Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, in the U.S. and by AbbVie outside of the U.S.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved IMBRUVICA® (ibrutinib) for the treatment of adult patients with chronic graft-versus-host-disease (cGVHD) after failure of one or more lines of systemic therapy.¹ With this approval, IMBRUVICA becomes the first and only therapy specifically approved for adults with cGVHD, a serious and debilitating potential consequence of stem cell or bone marrow transplant.² IMBRUVICA, a first-in-class Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor, is jointly developed and commercialized by Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie company, and Janssen Biotech, Inc.

- First oral presentation of full Phase 2 trial results with overall response rate (ORR), inclusive of complete and partial remission rates(1)