Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Guardant Health, Intelligent Implants, Thermo Fisher Scientific.
HONG KONG – In the midst of a COVID-19 crisis, India has waived the need for “well-established” foreign vaccines to undergo local trials. That could open doors for vaccines by Pfizer Inc., Johnson & Johnson and Moderna Inc.
The second oral CGRP antagonist to win FDA approval for acute migraine care is now the first to add preventive treatment to its label, marking a valuable win for Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Co. Ltd. and its oral dissolving tablet, Nurtec (rimegepant). The U.S. approval, for preventive treatment of episodic migraine, officially blesses a use for the medicine already adopted by many doctors, Piper Sandler analyst Christopher Raymond wrote, while opening up a potentially rich new stream of revenue for Biohaven.
Bristol Myers Squibb Co. said the FDA has approved Zeposia (ozanimod) as the first and only oral sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) receptor modulator for the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC). The medicine, first FDA-approved in March 2020 for certain adults with multiple sclerosis, can now be used to treat patients with moderately to severely active UC.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Affamed, Amgen, Astrazeneca, Biohaven, BMS, Calliditas, Diurnal, Eton, Fennec, Humanigen, Iterum, Lantheus, Novo, PCI, Provention, Ryvu, Verrica.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Bioinvent, Dicerna, Eli Lilly, Emmaus, Foresee, Gannex, GSK, Hightide, Intercept, J&J, Legend, Myovant, Ocugen, Pfizer, Seelos, Tarus, Transgene, Vir.
Lantheus Holdings Inc. has snagged FDA approval for Pylarify (piflufolastat F 18), a PET imaging agent for the identification of suspected metastasis or recurrence of prostate cancer. The company said the product will be available immediately in the mid-Atlantic and southern regions, with availability across the U.S. by the end of 2021.
LONDON – New guidelines for stem cell research open the door to extending the legal limit on human embryo research beyond the current 14-day maximum set down 40 years ago.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Acutus Medical, Advanced Human Imaging, Avicenna.AI, Lantheus, Micro Interventional Devices, Nowdiagnostics.
The FDA’s Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee (EMDAC) voted 10-7 May 27 that the benefits of Provention Bio Inc.’s teplizumab outweighed its risks, but the vote was not a ringing endorsement of the anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody biologic that could be the first disease-modifying treatment for people at risk of developing type 1 diabetes (T1D).