Rather than appeal an April decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the FDA is changing how it regulates imaging agents. That means the agency will transition at least some approved imaging agents from drug status to device status and, going forward, it will regulate products that meet both the device and drug definition as devices – unless Congress specifies otherwise.
PERTH, Australia – Imagion Biosystems Ltd. has entered a collaborative research program with therapeutic antibody development company Patrys Ltd. to combine their technologies to target brain tumor imaging and diagnosis.
PERTH, Australia – Melbourne-based Telix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has linked up with Hong Kong-listed China Grand Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Holdings Ltd. (CGP) in a licensing and commercial deal worth AU$400 million (US$285 million) plus sales royalties.
Navidea Biopharmaceuticals Inc. CEO Jed Latkin said positive findings from the second interim analysis of the phase IIb study called NAV3-31 “were certainly better than what we were looking for” and will “make our partnering discussions a lot more interesting.”