ABUS—…adding their core inhibitor didn't boost responses at all.
It was ASMB’s core inhibitor, VBR, that was added in the triple-combination trial. VBR had previously been shown to be ineffective, so its lack of additive efficacy in the triple-combination trial is not surprising at all. The trial in question was completed only because ASMB insisted on doing so.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”