South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. submitted a BLA to the U.S. FDA on March 10 to gain approval for its Xolair (omalizumab; Novartis AG) biosimilar, CT-P39, across major indications of asthma, food allergy and chronic spontaneous urticaria.
As geopolitical tensions mount, bipartisan legislation introduced in both the U.S. Senate and the House is calling to prohibit government contracts with certain Chinese biotechs such as BGI (formerly known as Beijing Genomic Institute) and Wuxi Apptec, because they are increasingly seen as national security threats.
Regulatory harmonization and reliance are the orders of the day at this year’s meeting of the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF), but that does not mean individual regulators are waiting for IMDRF to act on their own imperatives.
The U.S. FDA announced March 7 that Cardinal Health of Dublin, Ohio, has expanded a product correction for Monoject devices to a product removal because of manufacturing changes that could affect product performance.
Epitomee Medical Ltd submitted its application to the U.S. FDA for 510k regulatory clearance for its swallowable weight loss capsule. It joins a host of companies offering solutions to the global obesity crisis.
Simcere Zaiming, a subsidiary of Simcere Pharmaceutical Group Ltd., has received approval from the FDA and China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to conduct clinical trials with SIM-0500 in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.
Eilean Therapeutics LLC has announced clearance by the Human Research Ethics Committee in Australia for a first-in-human phase I trial of balamenib (ZE63-0302), an oral small-molecule inhibitor of the menin-KMT2A interaction.
Reflecting the evolving scientific understanding of Alzheimer’s disease, the U.S. FDA revised its 2018 draft guidance on developing drugs to treat early Alzheimer’s.
South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. submitted a BLA to the U.S. FDA on March 10 to gain approval for its Xolair (omalizumab; Novartis AG) biosimilar, CT-P39, across major indications of asthma, food allergy and chronic spontaneous urticaria.
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