Chimeric Therapeutics Ltd. has received FDA clearance of its IND application for CHM-2101, a first-in-class CDH17 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy for gastrointestinal (GI) cancers.
Researchers from Shanghai Henlius Biotech Inc. presented the discovery and preclinical characterization of HLX-42, a next-generation EGFR-targeting antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) being developed for the treatment of cancer.
Patients living with aggressive nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) now have a new treatment option with the U.S. FDA approval of Junshi Biosciences Co. Ltd./Coherus Biosciences Inc.’s PD-1 inhibitor antibody Loqtorzi (toripalimab), which will likely become the new standard of care for NPC.
Most of the patients and advocacy groups speaking at the first of 10 public listening sessions questioned the Biden administration’s talking points that U.S. Medicare’s prescription drug price negotiation will be good for beneficiaries because it will improve access to costly drugs by lowering prices.
Advocates of expanded use of telehealth in the U.S. may believe they have an unfairly high evidentiary bar to meet to bring payers on board, but that evidentiary requirement just received support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Alivedx, Neurotrigger.
It’s just a discussion next week of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Crispr Therapeutics AG’s sickle cell disease (SCD) therapy, with no vote expected from the U.S. FDA’s Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee. The FDA isn’t questioning the drug’s efficacy as much as it is concerned about the effects of off-target editing.
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