January 2025 EMA-CHMP recommendations

31 January 2025

The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) human medicines committee (CHMP) recommended four novel medicines for approval at its January 2025 meeting, as well as some biosimilars.

The CHMP recommended granting a marketing authorization for US pharma giant Merck & Co’s (NYSE: MRK) Capvaxive (pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine (21-valent)), a vaccine intended for the prevention of invasive disease and pneumonia caused by streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria in adults.

The committee adopted a positive opinion for Datroway (datopotamab deruxtecan; Dato-DXd) for, the treatment of breast cancer, which was developed by Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo (TYO; 4568) and UK pharma major AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN).

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