The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting biopharma, including: Biden orders review of scientific-integrity policies; Canada to build rare disease drug strategy; South African variant in U.S..
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Antengene, Bio-Thera, Harbour, Immunoforge, Kintor, M6P, Opko, Passage, Pfizer.
The U.S. biosimilar market is coming of age under the BsUFA II agreement, but there are a few steps the FDA could take to help it develop more predictably. For starters, the agency should conduct pre-approval inspections earlier in the 12-month biosimilar review cycle to give sponsors time to address unexpected issues, industry representatives told the FDA Jan. 27 in response to an independent interim assessment of the enhanced transparency and communication processes included in the current user fee agreement.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Cellectar, GBT, JCR, Kempharm, MGB, Q Biomed, Teneobio, Teneothree.
HONG KONG – Shortly after Australia’s recent provisional approval for the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty (tozinameran), originally developed by Pfizer Inc. and Biontech SE, Hong Kong has approved it, too, for emergency use ahead of rivals developed in mainland China. It is the first vaccine to be approved in the Chinese territory, made possible through a collaboration between Biontech and Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd.
Veralox Therapeutics Inc., a Maryland-based startup developing a small molecule for halting aberrant platelet activation and thrombosis, said the FDA has granted the candidate, VLX-1005, orphan drug status for the treatment of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT).
Following the FDA giving the green light to seven new medicines in December, it brought the approval total of new molecular entities (NMEs) in 2020 to 53, an amount that equals the number of new medicines that were approved in 1996 and ranking it second equal all-time just behind the 59 NMEs that were approved in 2018.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting biopharma, including: Endo, Impax under antitrust scrutiny again; More on EMA cyberattack.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abbvie, Astrazeneca, Biontech, Cardiff, Cidara, Edesa, Faron, Fosun, Immunicum, Meiragtx, Merck, Mundipharma, Nanoscope, OS Therapies, Recordati, Veralox, Vertex.
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