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US FDA to consider Dizal’s first-in-class lung cancer drug

Shanghai-based Dizal has made a submission to the US Food and Drug Administration, seeking approval for sunvozertinib. 8 November 2024

Health Canada approval for Moderna’s RSV vaccine

US mRNA specialist Moderna today announced Health Canada has approved mRESVIA (respiratory syncytial virus mRNA vaccine) for active immunization for the prevention of lower respiratory tract disease caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in adults 60 years of age and older. 8 November 2024

J&J files with EMA and FDA for Darzalex in high-risk smouldering MM

US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson today revealed it has submitted applications with the US Food and drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) to expand the approved indications for its Darzalex (daratumumab) subcutaneous (SC) formulation for the treatment of high-risk smouldering multiple myeloma (SMM). 8 November 2024

FDA Rare Pediatric Disease status for AskBio’s AB-1003

Asklepios BioPharmaceutical (AskBio) today announced that AB-1003 (also known as LION-101) has received rare pediatric disease designation and orphan-drug designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I/R9 (LGMD2I/R9). 7 November 2024

Acadia Pharma sells priority review voucher for $150 million

USA-based Acadia Pharmaceuticals has entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement to sell its Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher (PRV) for $150 million upon the closing of the transaction. 6 November 2024

GSK’s Arexvy receives expanded approval in Canada

GSK’s Arexvy (RSV vaccine) has received an expanded approval in Canada to prevent lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD) caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in adults aged 50-59 who are at increased risk. 6 November 2024

Another Dupixent approval in the EU

French pharma major Sanofi’s Dupixent (dupilumab), which notched up sales of 3.5 billion euros ($3.8 billion) in third-quarter 2024, +23.8% year-on-year, has picked up yet another indication in collaboration with Regeneron. 6 November 2024

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FDA approves REMS, advancing new drug disposal option for opioid analgesics

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced approval of a modification to the Opioid Analgesic Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (OA REMS) 6 November 2024

EU sets date for decision on proposed $16.5 billion Catalent buy

European regulators will decide by December 6 whether Novo Holdings, the controlling shareholder of Danish pharma giant Novo Nordisk, can finalize its $16.5 billion acquisition of contract drug manufacturer Catalent. 5 November 2024

Photocure’s Hexvix wins Chinese approval

Photocure, a Norway-based bladder cancer-focused company, has announced that Jiangsu Yahong Meditech, the parent company of its partner Asieris Pharmaceuticals, has received marketing authorization for Hexvix (hexaminolevulinate) in China. 5 November 2024

FDA accepts Ionis NDA for donidalorsen

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the New Drug Application (NDA) for donidalorsen, an investigational RNA-targeted medicine for prophylaxis to prevent attacks of hereditary angioedema (HAE) in adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older, under development by Ionis Pharmaceuticals. 4 November 2024

Disc Medicine leaps as it gets positive FDA feedback

Disc Medicine today announced a successful End of Phase 2 with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) supporting the regulatory path forward, including potential for accelerated approval, for bitopertin in erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP). 4 November 2024

FDA sets up Rare Diseases Innovation Hub

On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration published the FDA Voices: “FDA Takes Exciting Steps Toward Establishing the Rare Disease Innovation Hub,” by Patrizia Cavazzoni, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and Dr Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER). 4 November 2024

FDA Rare Pediatric Disease designation for BPGbio

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a Rare Pediatric disease designation for BPM31510T, an investigational treatment for epidermolysis (EB) from BPGbio. 4 November 2024

The week in pharma: action, reaction and insight – week to November 1

US pharma major AbbVie last week proposed $1.4 billion acquisition of US CNS drug developer Aliada Therapeutics. Last week saw a bunch of third quarter 2024 financials results, among which were Elil Lilly, AbbVie and Merck & Co. Also of note, Lexicon’s type I diabetes drug Zynquista faced a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee review that resulted in largely negative vote against recommendation. 3 November 2024

FDA panel vote leaves Lexicon’s Zynquista hopes hanging by a thread

Texas-based biopharma Lexicon Pharmaceuticals was trading nearly 36% lower on Friday morning. 1 November 2024

Remove barriers for EU firms trading in other markets, group says

Medicines for Europe has launched a study of market barriers faced by European generics and biosimilar pharmaceutical companies operating in 11 key third-country markets. 31 October 2024

Sugemalimab approved to treat adult patients with NSCLC in UK

The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved the medicine sugemalimab (trade name Eqjubi) to treat adult patients with a type of cancer called non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC ). 31 October 2024

Novartis’ Scemblix gains FDA approval in newly diagnosed CML

Novartis late yesterday revealed that Scemblix (asciminib) was granted accelerated approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for adult patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia in chronic phase (Ph+ CML-CP). 30 October 2024

FDA approves Protega’s Roxybond

Privately-held US drugmaker Protega Pharmaceuticals says that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Roxybond (oxycodone hydrochloride) immediate-release (IR) CII 10mg tablet for the management of pain severe enough to require an opioid analgesic and for which alternative treatments are inadequate. 29 October 2024

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Look back at pharma news in the week to July 23, 2021

Last week saw the announcement of two large licensing agreements. First, Gilead Sciences’ subsidiary Kite entered into a deal with BioNTech, whereby the German biotech, mostly in the news due to its COVID-19 vaccine developed with Pfizer, has acquired an R&D platform and clinical manufacturing facility in Maryland. The second deal was US pharma giant Pfizer signing an agreement with Arvinas for rights to the latter’s breast cancer candidate, ARV-471, that could cost it more than $2 billion. On the regulatory front, US biotech bluebird bio gained regulatory approval from the European Commission for its gene therapy Skysona. Also, Albireo received approval from both the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines for its rare liver disease drug Bylvay. 25 July 2021

Two new medicines recommended for approval by EMA's CHMP

As a result of its July meetings, the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human has recommended just two novel medicines for approval and rejected one. 23 July 2021

CHMP endorses review finding no link between viral vector in Zynteglo and blood cancer

The European Medicines Agency’s ’s human medicines committee, CHMP, has endorsed findings of a review which concluded that there is no evidence Zynteglo causes a blood cancer known as acute myeloid leukemia (AML). 23 July 2021

FDA backs treatment for pediatric patients with type 2 diabetes

The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved Bydureon and Bydureon BCie (exenatide extended-release) injection to be used in addition to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control (blood sugar levels) in pediatric patients 10 years or older with type 2 diabetes. 23 July 2021

Another important milestone for Verquvo with EC approval

The European Commission has granted marketing authorization in the European Union (EU) for vericiguat under the brand name Verquvo. 22 July 2021

Regular FDA approval for Keytruda plus Lenvima in endometrial cancer

The US Food and Drug Administration approved Keytruda (pembrolizumab) from Merck & Co in combination with Japanese drugmaker Eisai’s Lenvima (lenvatinib) for patients with advanced endometrial carcinoma' 22 July 2021

FDA clinical hold on Magenta Therapeutics' MGTA-117 trial

US clinical-stage biotech Magenta Therapeutics’ shares closed down more than 9% at $8.07 on Wednesday, after the company revealed it has received a clinical hold letter from the US Food and Drug Administration related to its Investigational New Drug Application (IND) filed in June 2021 to initiate a Phase I/II clinical trial of MGTA-117 in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). 22 July 2021

Sixth Breakthrough Therapy designation for Roche and AbbVie drug

Venclexta (venetoclax), in combination with azacytidine, has been granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for previously untreated intermediate, high- and very high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) based on the revised International prognostic scoring system (IPSS-R). 21 July 2021

Albireo's Bylvay gets FDA green light for PFIC

The US Food & Drug Administration approval of Bylvay (odevixibat), the first drug approved for the treatment of pruritus in all subtypes of progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC), developed by Boston, USA-based Albireo Pharma. 21 July 2021

Myovant gains EU approval for Ryeqo as treatment for uterine fibroids

The European Commission (EC) has approved the marketing authorization application for Ryeqo (relugolix 40mg, estradiol 1.0mg, and norethindrone acetate 0.5mg) for the treatment of moderate to severe symptoms of uterine fibroids in adult women of reproductive age, with no limitation for duration of use. 21 July 2021

US FDA approves fexinidazole, first all-oral treatment for sleeping sickness

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved fexinidazole as the first all-oral treatment for both stages of the Trypanosoma brucei gambiense form of sleeping sickness (Human African trypanosomiasis) in patients six years of age and older and weighing at least 20 kg. 21 July 2021

EMA starts rolling review of COVID-19 vaccine Vidprevtyn

The European Medicines Agency’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has started a rolling review of Vidprevtyn, a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sanofi Pasteur. 20 July 2021

Japan is first country to approve COVID-19 cocktail Ronapreve

Swiss pharma giant Roche today announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has approved Ronapreve (casirivimab and imdevimab), for the indication of SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 via intravenous infusion. 20 July 2021

Ardelyx tanks as FDA sees deficiencies in tenapanor NDA

Shares of California, USA-based cardiorenal specialist Ardelyx plunged more than 70% to $2.28 in after-hours trading on Monday, as the company revealed the US regulator is not ready to approve its tenapanor for dialysis patients. 20 July 2021

FDA expected to convert Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine EUA to full approval within months

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Priority Review designation for the Biologics License Application (BLA) for the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech. 19 July 2021

EMA starts review of Kineret in adult COVID-19 patients

The European Medicines agency announced today that it has started evaluating an application to extend the use of Kineret (anakinra) to include treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in adult patients with pneumonia who are at risk of developing severe respiratory failure (inability of the lungs to work properly). 19 July 2021

Imfinzi approved in China for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer

Imfinzi (durvalumab) has been approved in China for the first-line treatment of adult patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC), in combination with standard of care platinum chemotherapy (etoposide plus a choice of either carboplatin or cisplatin). 19 July 2021

FDA nod for Merck's Vaxneuvance

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Vaxneuvance (pneumococcal 15-valent conjugate vaccine) for active immunization for the prevention of invasive disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes 1, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 6B, 7F, 9V, 14, 18C, 19A, 19F, 22F, 23F and 33F in adults 18 years of age and older. 19 July 2021

Look back at pharma news in the week to July 16, 2021

Licensing agreements featured heavily in last week’s news, starting with US biotech Biogen entering into an agreement that could cost it $1 billion to get rights to a BTK inhibitor – orelabrutinib for multiple sclerosis – from China’s InnoCare Pharma. Denmark’s Novo Nordisk in-licensed rights to Prothena’s ATTR amyloidosis program, and PRX004, in a deal worth up to $1.2 billion. Also, Ionis Pharmaceuticals last Tuesday exercised an option on fellow USA-based Bicycle Therapeutics’ oligonucleotide targeting the transferrin receptor 1. On the M&A front, Eli Lilly revealed on Wednesday it was acquiring privately-held US company Protomer Technologies for what could be a $1 billion transaction, getting rights to its glucose-sensing insulin project. Additionally, the US Food and Drug Administration took issue with Amgen’s promotion of its cancer drug Neulasta, which the agency said could undermine confidence in biosimilars. 18 July 2021

FDA green light for Rezurock in chronic graft-versus-host disease

Shares of USA-based Kadmon Holdings shot up more than 20% to $4.28 on Friday, after the company revealed its pharma unit had received its first regulatory approval, for Rezurock (belumosudil). 17 July 2021

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