The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee needed two days of hearings to get through a spending measure that provided the FDA with $500 million for its part in the government response. The CDC would receive $7.5 billion for vaccine distribution and tracking, all developments that ran parallel to an announcement that another 200 million doses of vaccine will be delivered by the end of July at a cost of $3.7 billion.
PERTH, Australia – Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration is proposing changes to its fees and charges and is asking stakeholders for feedback on three different proposed fee structures for the 2021-2022 financial year.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Curevac, Immunitybio, Lysogene, Nantkwest, Regeneron, Seagen, Xeris.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s angiopoietin-like 3 (ANGPTL3)-targeting antibody, Evkeeza (evinacumab), won FDA approval for use in reducing LDL cholesterol in patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.
Limited manufacturing capacity, supply chain disruptions and a dearth of personnel with specialized skills are all challenges vaccine makers are facing as they race to produce contracted quotas of COVID-19 vaccines that were developed and authorized in record time.
LONDON – The EMA has requested all COVID-19 vaccine developers to investigate if their products offer protection against new variants of SARS-CoV-2 and to submit the relevant data.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting biopharma, including: Fed Circuit agrees Amgen patents lack enablement; HC nudging along with regulatory modernization plan; EMA: No Sputnik application yet.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Clinuvel, Genmab, Moderna, Oryzon, Polaryx, Seagen.
In its first decision on excessive drug pricing, the European Commission (EC) accepted a commitment Feb. 10 from Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd. to immediately drop the price of six essential cancer drugs in Europe by an average of 73% and to continue to supply the drugs for at least the next five years.
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