New medicines recommended for approval by EMA's CHMP in March

25 March 2022

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended five medicines for approval at its March 2022 meeting. A final decision on approval is announced by the European Commission, which usually take around two-to-three months.

These included AstraZeneca’s (LSE: AZN) monoclonal antibody Evusheld (tixagevimab/cilgavimab) received a positive opinion from the CHMP for the prevention of COVID-19. Details of this are covered in a separate article.

A new gene therapy, Carvykti (ciltacabtagene autoleucel), from Johnson & Johnson’s (NYSE: JNJ) subsidiary Janssen-Cilag, received a positive opinion for a conditional marketing authorization for the treatment of multiple myeloma. Carvykti had support through the PRIME scheme, the EMA’s platform for early and enhanced dialogue with developers of promising new medicines that address unmet medical needs.

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