Presage Biosciences Inc. has announced that the FDA has issued a study may proceed notification for testing a pre-GMP drug candidate with the company’s Comparative In Vivo Oncology (CIVO) platform. Owned by Pure Biologics, the drug candidate, PBA-0405, is a ROR1-targeting compound that has been engineered to induce tumor cell killing by cytotoxic immune cells.
Solid Biosciences Inc.’s SGT-003 has been granted orphan drug designation by the FDA. The company’s next-generation Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy candidate was also granted fast track designation last month.
Though the PDUFA date for its BLA wasn’t until March 30, 2024, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. celebrated the U.S. FDA approval Jan. 16 for Casgevy (exagamglogene autotemcel), expanding use the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-edited cell therapy in patients, 12 and older, with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia.
The EMA has once again come in behind the U.S. FDA, granting market access to 77 new products in 2023, fewer than half the 157 approvals the FDA processed in the 11 months from January through December 2023.
China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has accepted for review Hutchmed’s NDA for sovleplenib (HMPL-523) for treatment of primary immune thrombocytopenia.
The U.S. FDA has announced a class I recall of Iveninx large-volume infusion pumps made by Fresenius Kabi USA of Lake Zurich, Ill., due to a mechanical issue with fluid valve pins that could cause the pumps to shut down. Fresenius is rolling out a remediation plan for more than 900 pumps affected by the recall, which to date has been associated with no reports of injury or death.
The history of med-tech patent litigation is replete with long-running conflicts that test the willpower of the participants, which increasingly seems to be the case in a series of lawsuits between Masimo Corp. and Apple Inc.
CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. has announced FDA approval of an IND application for JMT-106, a bispecific fusion protein drug, for glypican-3 (GPC3)-positive solid tumors.
Six weeks after the U.S. FDA issued an alert, the EMA is following suit and starting a review of the safety of six approved CAR T-cell cancer therapies, following 23 reports of patients developing secondary cancers. The EMA said such malignancies were considered “an important potential risk” at the time of approval and are included in the risk management plan. Close monitoring is in place, with companies required to conduct long-term safety and efficacy follow-up studies and to file safety update reports.
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