Hoping its drug, daprodustat, can succeed in the U.S. where two other hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors (HIF-PHIs) have failed so far, GSK plc will present its case Oct. 26 to the FDA’s Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee for the drug's potential use as a treatment for anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease regardless of dialysis dependency.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Medalliance.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Akeso, Ars, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, GSK, Regeneron, Silverback.
Expanding its mandate to accelerate access to essential medicines to people in low- and middle-income countries, the Medicines Patent Pool signed its first voluntary licensing agreement for a cancer treatment, Novartis AG’s Tasigna (nilotinib). A twice-daily oral drug, Tasigna is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor included on the World Health Organization’s Model List of Essential Medicines as a second-line treatment for adult and pediatric chronic myeloid leukemia.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abbvie, Biontech, Covis, Leo, Moderna, Novavax, Pfizer, Revance, Tvardi.
Expanding its mandate to accelerate access to essential medicines to people in low- and middle-income countries, the Medicines Patent Pool signed its first voluntary licensing agreement for a cancer treatment, Novartis AG’s Tasigna (nilotinib). A twice-daily oral drug, Tasigna is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor included on the World Health Organization’s Model List of Essential Medicines as a second-line treatment for adult and pediatric chronic myeloid leukemia.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Aptitude Medical, Depuy Synthes, Sol-Millennium.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Astrazeneca, Clairvoyant, Domain, Origin, Tvardi.
Sinaptica Therapeutics Inc. received a U.S. FDA breakthrough device designation for its electromagnetic therapy for Alzheimer’s disease. Sinaptistim-AD combines neurostimulation, brain wave monitoring and artificial intelligence (AI) to address the cognitive and functional decline in patients with the neurological disorder.
The U.S. FDA wants more data on PTC-518 before PTC Therapeutics Inc.'s phase II study of Huntington’s disease can continue enrollment. While stopped in the U.S., the study of the oral, small-molecule splicing modifier still is enrolling participants at sites in several European countries and in Australia.
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