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Bristol Myers Squibb bet more than $1.8 billion that Nektar Therapeutics’ drug could be combined with the pharma giant’s Opdivo to expand the reach of that drug to more patients. The drug combination has failed its first Phase 3 in advanced melanoma; separate studies in kidney and bladder cancers are ongoing.

Plaintiffs Laurie Volpe and Matthew Hopkins have filed suit separately against defendant Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Dicerna), and their board of