Bristol Myers Squibb Co.’s Breyanzi (lisocabtagene maraleucel) CAR T-cell therapy has passed muster with European regulators as a therapy for relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma, setting up a likely European marketing authorization in the coming weeks.

The U.S. FDA often has difficulty turning around draft guidances into final guidances in a timely manner, but that hasn’t impeded the agency’s appetite for fast turnaround of industry responses to FDA mandated postmarket surveillance studies. Nonetheless, the Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA) said in comments to the docket for the May 2021 draft guidance for Section 522 postmarket surveillance studies that a requirement that such a study be fully enrolled within 24 months should be aspirational rather than compulsory.

In keeping with its Drug Competition Action Plan released in 2017, the U.S. FDA finalized two guidances this week focused on the submission and review of generic drugs.

Pfizer Inc.’s oral antiviral Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir) COVID-19 antiviral looks set for approval in the European Union after it was given the green light by its top regulatory committee. The EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use recommended conditional marketing authorization for treatment of COVID-19 in adults who don’t require supplemental oxygen but are at increased risk for progressing to severe disease.

PERTH, Australia – Australia’s Therapeutic Good Administration (TGA) plans to increase all fees and charges to industry by 2.6% for the 2022 to 2023 financial year, and it is seeking feedback on proposed options.