** Shares of clinical-stage biopharma company Olema
Pharmaceuticals OLMA.O up 1.8% at $13.2
** Olema reports expansion of clinical collaboration and
supply agreement with Switzerland-based Novartis NOVN.S
** The amended pact to increase size of an ongoing
early-to-mid-stage trial
** The trial is testing OLMA's lead drug candidate,
palazestrant in combination with Novartis' anti-cancer medicine
ribociclib to treat a type of breast cancer
** Olema first signed a clinical collaboration and supply
agreement with NOVN in July 2020, the agreement was amended and
restated in January 2022
** YTD, stock up about 438%
(Reporting by Pratik Jain in Bengaluru)
((Pratik.Jain@thomsonreuters.com;))