Artiva Biotherapeutics Inc. has received FDA clearance of its IND application for Allonk (AB-101), to be used in combination with rituximab for treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in patients with active lupus nephritis.
The U.S. FDA has given its first approval for treating fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), an ultra-rare disease that creates bone formation outside the skeleton that can lead to immobility, life-threatening respiratory problems and a total locking of the jaw.
Delcath Systems Inc. reported that the FDA approved its Hepzato Kit for the treatment of adults with unresectable hepatic-dominant metastatic uveal melanoma (mUM). The FDA nod also triggered a second tranche of financing of approximately $35 million from a private placement in March.
Acorai AB received a U.S. FDA breakthrough device designation for its Heart Monitor, a noninvasive intracardiac pressure monitoring device for patients with heart failure. The Acorai Heart Monitor can estimate diastolic pulmonary artery pressure, systolic pulmonary artery pressure and mean pulmonary artery pressure in patients with Stage C heart failure who have been referred for hemodynamic monitoring.
The U.S. FDA’s position on predetermined change control protocols (PCCPs) is still in draft form, even though at least one company has won a marketing authorization with a PCCP attached to the underlying artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm. While the agency is still on the fence about a PCCP that incorporates a potential change in the indication for use, regulatory attorney Brigid DeCoursey Bondoc told BioWorld that industry should not reflexively avoid proposing a PCCP with a such change so long as the proposal includes answers to the questions the FDA is sure to ask.
It’s been 25 years since the U.S. FDA issued a final guidance on informed consent and nine years since it asked for comments on a draft guidance to supersede that 1998 guide.
Venatorx Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Aug. 15 said the U.S. FDA accepted its NDA for an intravenous antibiotic combination, cefepime-taniborbactam, to treat complicated urinary tract infection (cUTI), including acute pyelonephritis.
Often when the U.S. FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) determines that the marketing of a drug crosses the line of misbranding, it hands the sponsor an untitled letter schooling it on how the promotional materials run afoul on safety or efficacy claims.
Immpact Bio USA Inc. has received FDA clearance of its IND application for IMPT-514, a bispecific CD19/CD20 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T therapy for the treatment of active, refractory systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).