The U.S. FDA has approved the country’s first-ever respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, Arexvy, from GSK plc. The adjuvanted vaccine is also the first for older adults anywhere on the planet. GSK now has a head start to vaccinate the U.S. market, but other big companies, such as Sanofi SA and especially Pfizer Inc., are in late-stage development and will pose strong challenges in the coming year. Pfizer’s PF-0692831/RSVpreF, an RSV vaccine for treating lower respiratory tract disease caused by RSV, has a priority BLA with a May 31 PDUFA date.
While the U.S. continues to call out other countries for weak enforcement of intellectual property rights, trade secret theft and forced technology transfers in the life sciences sector, some companies in the sector claim similar things are happening in the U.S. In its 2023 Special 301 Report, released April 26, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) noted “the growing need for trading partners to provide effective protection and enforcement of trade secrets.”
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Amolyt, Avadel, Boehringer Ingelheim, Elicera, Eloxx, Hyloris, Memo, Neurobo, Pharmather, Protara, Sirpant, Tenaya.
In its first markup of the 118th Congress May 2, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, under the new leadership of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), devolved into a brief mutiny of sorts as the committee members started to take up four bipartisan bills aimed at taming prescription drug prices.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Aquavit, Arcutis, Ascendis, Atsena, Biomea, BMS, Cabaletta, Erasca, Kiromic, Medincell, Neurosense, Onquality, Sanofi, Teva.
It’s not often that getting an NDA rejected by the U.S. FDA is cause for a company’s stock to rise. But in the case of Ascendis Pharma A/S, the agency’s anticipated complete response letter (CRL) for Transcon PTH (palopegteriparatide) offered some much-needed clarity and a potentially optimistic time frame for an NDA resubmission seeking approval of the once-daily hormone replacement therapy for hypoparathyroidism, news that sent the company’s shares (NASDAQ:ASND) up 24%, or $16.78, to close May 1 at $86.74.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ years-long musing over a streamlined coverage policy specifically for breakthrough medical devices is now taking a toll on breakthrough medications that could provide a cure or arrest the progression of debilitating diseases.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Bristol Myers Squibb, H. Lundbeck, Moderna, Otsuka, Pfizer, Rnaimmune, Senhwa.
A heart-protective cardiac myosin inhibitor and two biologics – one for a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and another for an inflammatory skin condition – were among the therapies recommended for approval by the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use this week.
The U.S. FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee has recommended by a wide majority that the PARP inhibitor Lynparza (olaparib) in a combination therapy for treating prostate cancer should be restricted to only patients whose tumors have a BRCA mutation.
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