Antengene Corp. Ltd. has gained the first greenlight in Asia for the oral exportin 1 (XPO1) inhibitor selinexor, in-licensed from Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc., after South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety gave the thumbs up for its NDA. The drug has been approved in Korea to treat relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (MM) and relapsed and refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in combination with dexamethasone.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Alzamend, Ardelyx, BMS, Erytech, GSK, I-Mab, Imago, Janssen, Junshi, Revolo.
The FDA has posted a final rule for its intended use policy for devices, drugs and biologics, which formalizes the elimination of the totality-of-the-evidence approach to determining the manufacturer’s intended use. While the final rule says that mere knowledge of off-label use cannot be the sole determinant of the manufacturer’s intended use, the rule still allows the FDA to infer intended use by “any relevant source of evidence,” a term that may be sufficiently squishy to be functionally equivalent to the controversial totality-of-the-evidence standard.
China’s National Health Commission has just released a new set of regulations to evaluate the clinical value of both approved drugs and those still in trials as part of its efforts to improve the market standards.
Rapid changes, a traditionally conservative approach and a chronic lack of regulatory transparency could undo a lot of the progress that Japan has made in the past few years to speed up approvals and all but eliminate a punishing drug lag that, for decades, held back the development of the country’s biopharma sector.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abbvie, Alzamend, Arrowhead, Basilea, Dicerna, Everest, Fusion, Genentech, Eli Lilly, Nuvox, Oncopeptides, Scancell, Transcenta, Viatris, Vico.
Ushering in a new era for the U.S. biosimilar marketplace, the FDA, on July 28, approved its first interchangeable biosimilar, which also will be the first to bring biosimilar competition to the U.S. insulin space. The honor went to Viatris Inc.’s Semglee, which the FDA recognized as both biosimilar to and interchangeable with Sanofi SA’s blockbuster drug Lantus (insulin glargine), a long-acting insulin analogue.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abeona, Apic, Arcturus, I-Mab, Lexeo, Mycovia, Nrx, Pharmamar, Takeda, Xoma.
Interim data for Soberana-02, a Cuban COVID-19 conjugate vaccine, surpassed the threshold set by the WHO, according to the Finlay Institute of Vaccines (IFV) in Havana that developed it, although the results have not been peer reviewed.
Another shoe dropped on Oncopeptides AB when the U.S. FDA issued an alert July 28 citing trial data showing an increased risk of death with the company’s only marketed drug, Pepaxto, used in combination with dexamethasone to treat multiple myeloma. The agency said it’s continuing to evaluate the Ocean trial results and may hold a public meeting to discuss the safety findings and explore the continued marketing of Pepaxto (melphalan flufenamide), which was granted accelerated approval in February as a fifth-line treatment for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.
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