The EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) is joining the U.S. FDA and the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in approving Anktiva (nogapendekin alfa inbakicept-pmin) in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) who have not responded to immune stimulation treatment with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine and would otherwise require surgical removal of the bladder.
Avencell Therapeutics Inc. has received clinical trial clearances from the FDA and EMA to conduct a phase I/II trial (Quadvance) of AVC-203 for the treatment of relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies.
Proving its latest addition to the Farapulse pulsed field ablation (PFA) platform is no turkey, Boston Scientific Corp.'s Farapoint PFA catheter received CE mark as the U.S. celebrated Thanksgiving. Farapoint is indicated for ablation of the cavotricuspid isthmus, specifically to treat right atrial flutter.
Kedrion SpA’s investigational plasma-derived treatment for congenital aceruloplasminemia has been awarded European orphan drug designation by the EMA. The company is working to advance this treatment toward clinical development in Europe.
Fifteen years since the first patient was treated, and after being ditched by two companies, the EMA is recommending approval of Waskyra (etuvetidigene autotemcel), the first gene therapy for treating Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.
Proqr Therapeutics NV has received clinical trial application (CTA) authorization under the EMA’s new centralized review process for a phase I study of AX-0810, which is being developed for the treatment of cholestatic diseases such as primary sclerosing cholangitis and biliary atresia.
There was a curate’s egg for Sanofi SA from this month’s meeting of the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, with a recommendation to approve one of the French pharma’s drugs – and the rejection of another.
Taho Pharmaceuticals Ltd. announced an NDA submission to the U.S. FDA for TAH-3311, developed as the world’s first oral dissolving film formulation of apixaban, marking a regulatory milestone for the Taipei-based biotech.
Taho Pharmaceuticals Ltd. announced an NDA submission to the U.S. FDA for TAH-3311, developed as the world’s first oral dissolving film formulation of apixaban, marking a regulatory milestone for the Taipei-based biotech.
The U.S. FDA approved Merck & Co. Inc.’s Keytruda Qlex (pembrolizumab and berahyaluronidase alfa-pmph) injection on Sept. 19, making it the first and only subcutaneously (SC)-administered immune checkpoint inhibitor that can be administered in about a minute.