Stealth Biotherapeutics Inc. had hoped the U.S. FDA would have approved its lead candidate, elamipretide, as the first treatment for Barth syndrome by now. Instead, it’s headed to a meet-up with the agency’s Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee (CRDAC) Oct. 10. The discussion and vote at that meeting could be make-or-break for patients with the ultra-rare debilitating mitochondrial disease that has no approved therapies. “Barring support from CRDAC, the future of elamipretide for Barth syndrome in the U.S. is tenuous," Stealth CEO Reenie McCarthy told BioWorld.
Adcencdo ApS has obtained FDA clearance of its IND application for ADCE-D01 in patients with metastatic and/or unresectable soft tissue sarcoma (STS). A first-in-human phase I/II study in patients with metastatic and/or unresectable STS will recruit in the U.S. and Europe.
Medtronic plc reported a voluntary recall of certain insulin pumps after customers said a single drop, bump, or physical impact could shorten their battery life.
Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc. has gained IND clearance from the FDA for a phase I/II trial of REC-1245 in a biomarker-enriched patient population, including patients with solid tumors and lymphoma. The trial is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of this year.
Alentis Therapeutics AG has obtained IND clearance from the FDA for ALE.P02, an anti-Claudin-1 (CLDN1) antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) with a tubulin inhibitor payload.
It’s well past time for the U.S. FDA to end its silence on what device patents can be listed in the Orange Book as part of a drug-device combination product, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said in an Oct. 1 letter that took FDA Commissioner Robert Califf to task for letting the FTC do the FDA’s job.
Setpoint Medical Inc. received U.S. FDA investigational device exemption approval to initiate a study of its neuroimmune modulation platform in people living with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Setpoint plans to launch the 60-person trial in 2025 to evaluate the use of its implantable neurostimulation device to slow or reverse the nerve damage characteristic of multiple sclerosis.
The FDA has awarded orphan drug designation to Papillon Therapeutics Inc.’s PPL-002, an experimental gene-modified CD34+ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) therapy, for the treatment of Danon disease.
The controversy over conflicts of interest for Jeff Shuren, formerly the director of the U.S. FDA’s device center, reached Capitol Hill and may lead to an executive branch investigation into the matter.
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