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Drug

Ipilimumab

Approved · FDA / EMA
Emerging researchLate-stage developmentRising momentum

Also known as Yervoy.

RxNorm1094833UNII6T8C155666
17
Research papers
64
Active clinical trials
41
Regulatory events
Latest activity
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Recent clinical, regulatory, research and industry developments relating to this drug.

Final Results From a Phase I Trial and Expansion Cohorts of Cabozantinib and Nivolumab Alone or With Ipilimumab for Advanced/Metastatic Genitourinary Tumors.

Research2024-07-02Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

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Identifiers & mechanism

Canonical identifiers, marketed brand names and mechanism, resolved across RxNorm, ChEMBL and ATC.

Canonical name
Ipilimumab
Aliases & brands
Yervoy
RxNorm CUI
1094833
UNII
6T8C155666
Regulatory jurisdictions
mhrafdaema

Regulatory timeline

41 events

The complete regulatory record, grouped by authority — approvals, safety advisories and label changes. Each authority shows its most recent events; expand one to read its full history.

Approval / market entry confirmed across FDA and EMA (2011-03-252011-07-13)
Earliest approval
2011-03-25
Latest approval
2025-05-23
Authorities
FDA · EMA · MHRA
Total events
41
fdaU.S. Food and Drug Administration· 39 events
2026-06-12Label change
Label change: IPILIMUMAB (BLA125377)
Evidence ↗
2025-05-23Indication expansion
Indication expansion: IPILIMUMAB (BLA125377)
Evidence ↗
2025-04-11Indication expansion
Indication expansion: IPILIMUMAB (BLA125377)
Evidence ↗
emaEuropean Medicines Agency· 1 event
2011-07-13ApprovalMulti-authority
Approval: Yervoy (EMA)
Indication: Melanoma Yervoy as monotherapy or combination with nivolumab is indicated for the treatment of advanced (unresectable or metastatic) melanoma in adults and adolescents 12 years ofShow full indication

Melanoma Yervoy as monotherapy or combination with nivolumab is indicated for the treatment of advanced (unresectable or metastatic) melanoma in adults and adolescents 12 years of age and older (see section 4.4).  Yervoy in combination with nivolumab is indicated for the treatment of advanced (unresectable or metastatic) melanoma in adults. Relative to nivolumab monotherapy, an increase in progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) for the combination of nivolumab with ipilimumab is established only in patients with low tumour PD-L1 expression (see sections 4.4 and 5.1). Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) Yervoy in combination with nivolumab is indicated for the first-line treatment of adult patients with intermediate/poor-risk advanced renal cell carcinoma (see section 5.1). Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) Yervoy in combination with nivolumab and 2 cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy is indicated for the first-line treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer in adults whose tumours have no sensitising EGFR mutation or ALK translocation. Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) Yervoy in combination with nivolumab is indicated for the first-line treatment of adult patients with unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma. Mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) or microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) colorectal cancer (CRC) Yervoy in combination with nivolumab is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with mismatch repair deficient or microsatellite instability high colorectal cancer in the following settings: first-line treatment of unresectable or metastatic colorectal cancer; treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer after prior fluoropyrimidine based combination chemotherapy (see section 5.1). Oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) Yervoy in combination with nivolumab is indicated for the first-line treatment of adult patients with unresectable advanced, recurrent or metastatic oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma with tumour cell PD-L1 expression ≥ 1%.Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) Yervoy in combination with nivolumab is indicated for the first line treatment of adult patients with unresectable or advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

Evidence ↗
mhraMedicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency· 1 event
2019-01-09Safety communicationSafety
Drug Safety Update: Ipilimumab (Yervoy): reports of cytomegalovirus (CMV) gastrointestinal infection or reactivation
Evidence ↗

Data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (U.S. Food and Drug Administration), public domain (CC0).

Contains information from the European Medicines Agency (European Medicines Agency), © EMA, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Contains public sector information from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) licensed under the Open Government Licence (OGL v3).

Clinical trials

197 trials

The current development programme across all trial phases — status mix, phase distribution and the late-stage studies shaping the evidence base.

Development programme
CLINICALTRIALS.GOV · LIVE REGISTRY
197
registered trials across all phases
LATEST COMPLETION 2025
64
Active studies
28
Recruiting
21
Late-stage (III+)
89
Completed
44
Discontinued
PHASE DISTRIBUTIONn = 197
Early Phase 13Phase 151Phase 1 / 237Phase 285Phase 2 / 31Phase 317Phase 42Phase N / A1

Late-stage studies

Phase III+ trials still open or recently active — where late-stage evidence is being generated.

Recent completions

Trials that read out recently, adding to the completed evidence base.

Research activity

17 papers

Key research shaping understanding of this drug, combining the latest publications with the most influential evidence.

Publications over time
20102024
Most influential

Combined Nivolumab and Ipilimumab or Monotherapy in Untreated Melanoma.

The New England journal of medicine · 2015 · 5,963 cites

Overall Survival with Combined Nivolumab and Ipilimumab in Advanced Melanoma.

The New England journal of medicine · 2017 · 2,790 cites

Five-Year Survival with Combined Nivolumab and Ipilimumab in Advanced Melanoma.

The New England journal of medicine · 2019 · 2,691 cites

Pooled Analysis of Long-Term Survival Data From Phase II and Phase III Trials of Ipilimumab in Unresectable or Metastatic Melanoma.

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2015 · 1,536 cites

Combined Nivolumab and Ipilimumab in Melanoma Metastatic to the Brain.

The New England journal of medicine · 2018 · 974 cites
Recent papers
Major research themes8
Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols4Immunotherapy3Ipilimumab3Nivolumab3Neoadjuvant Therapy2Anilides1Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological1Carcinoma, Renal Cell1
Journals, researchers & institutions
Top journals
  • The New England journal of medicine6
  • Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology3
  • Journal of immunotherapy (Hagerstown, Md. : 1997)2
  • Nature communications2
  • International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics1
  • JAMA oncology1
Leading researchers
  • Ascierto PA7
  • Hodi FS7
  • Dummer R6
  • Maio M6
  • Wolchok JD6
  • Chiarion-Sileni V5
  • Ferrucci PF5
  • Grob JJ5
Leading institutions
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  • Aix-Marseille University2
  • Center for Cancer Research2
  • City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center2
  • Netherlands Cancer Institute2
  • The Netherlands Cancer Institute2
  • University Hospitals Leuven2

Related diseases

4 conditions

Regulator-approved indications and conditions co-mentioned with this drug across the research literature. Number shows shared papers.

Related drugs

1 matches

Drugs sharing diseases, protein targets and literature with this one. Ranked by graph evidence (shared targets + diseases weighted above co-mentions).

Studied across 4 of the same disease areas as Ipilimumab in the shared literature.

4 shared diseases1 shared paper
References & data sources
  • RxNorm (U.S. National Library of Medicine) — drug identity
  • Europe PMC — research literature
  • ClinicalTrials.gov — clinical trials
  • Regulatory event sources are credited in the Regulatory Timeline above.