New hires and promotions in the biopharma industry, including: Actimed, Allena, Biofrontera, Destiny, Elicio, Gain, Imago, Lipum, Oncosec, Quralis, Sangamo, Scenic, Tryp, Windtree.
The U.S. FDA’s safer technologies program, or STeP, may seem uncontroversial, but agency staff said on a Feb. 1 conference call that the program could be delayed by the change in administration at the White House. This is possibly an artifact of the Biden administration’s Jan. 20 executive order (EO) that applies a freeze to federal agency activities for 60 days, an EO that could affect a wide swath of federal agency activity.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: MITA unveils policy concerns for 2021; NRC seeks nominees for medical isotopes adcomm; Senators: More protection needed for genomic data; Veterans’ genomic data put at risk; DNA sequencing claims struck down.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Galderma, Soliton.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Alivecor, Althea UK and Ireland, Ambu, Ascensia, Avails Medical, Cadwell Industries, Cardiovascular Systems, Chansu Vascular Technologies, Circularity Healthcare, Earlysense, Fuse Medical, Hillrom, Innova Medical Group, Laborie Medical Technologies, Mayo Clinic, Orthovestments, Roche, Seegene, Senseonics, Setpoint Medical, Urotronic.