[chris37]

Very good news!

But who comes up with these drug names?

[aquila48]

“But who comes up with these drug names?”

I think they throw a dozen scrabble letters up in the air and find the most unpronounceable combination, and that’s the drug name. I’m taking several of those myself.

[Celtic Conservative]

Generally it’s a shorthand rendition of its chemical structure.

CC

[motor_racer]

Cats walking on keyboards?

[firebrand]

LOL. They have to look like the whole thing is too hard for you to understand.

[Silentgypsy]

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-newer-medicines-have-names-ending-with-the-letters-umab-Is-that-an-acronym-for-something?share=1

[Buckeye McFrog]

But who comes up with these drug names?

Apparently a team of Rhesus Monkeys sitting in front of keyboards at Pfizer.

[UCANSEE2]

But who comes up with these drug names?

I was wondering the same thing myself.

[The Antiyuppie]

“But who comes up with these drug names?”

All I know is any drug ending with a “-mab” is a monoclonal antibody, a “biological”, not a “chemical” (=expensive, generally proprietary, and generally harder to make).

[Mr. Jeeves]

But who comes up with these drug names?

In this case, I think the Aztecs. :)