On May 28, 2021, the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved sotorasib as the first targeted therapy for patients with KRAS G12C-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Both researchers and patients celebrated this historic breakthrough, which had been a goal since the KRAS oncogene was discovered 40 years ago. KRAS is a leading driver mutation in various forms of cancer.

Upal Basu Roy, PhD, MPH, LUNGevity's Executive Director of Research, interviews Patrick Forde, MD (MB, BCH), at the 2022 AACR meeting about his findings on immunotherapy in early-stage lung cancer.

On January 31, 2022,  Amy Moore, PhD, brought us an update on KRAS. Dr. Moore, LUNGevity's Vice President of Global Engagement and Patient Partnerships, spoke with Terri Conneran, KRAS lung cancer survivor and founder of the KRAS Kickers; and Darryl McConnell, PhD, Research Site Head at Boehringer Ingelheim in Vienna, Austria.