Resolution Therapeutics Ltd. has received approval from the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to initiate a phase I/II study of its lead candidate RTX-001 in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis.
For the third time in as many years, Health Canada, the U.S. FDA and the UK Medicines and Health Care Products Regulatory Agency have teamed up to issue a set of recommendations for artificial intelligence used in or as a medical device.
The U.K. Medicines and Health Care Products Regulatory Agency is considering a policy of mutual recognition of medical devices that have won marketing authorization in four other jurisdictions, including the U.S. and the EU. While there are significant exclusions – such as for some articles that qualify as software as a medical device – this policy would be in force at some point in 2025, easing the path forward for products in a market that is home to nearly 67 million potential patients.
The U.K. Medicines and Health Care Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is among the regulators across the globe that are scrambling to keep pace with artificial intelligence (AI) in medical devices, releasing an April 30, 2024, paper on its own approach. One of the key considerations in this paper is that MHRA expects to up-classify some AI-enabled device software functions in its ongoing regulatory revamp, a prediction that suggests a more stringent premarket path for these products in the years ahead.
Beijing- and Shanghai-based Sperogenix Therapeutics Ltd. said that China’s regulatory agency accepted the NDA filing and granted priority review of Agamree (vamorolone) for Duchenne muscular dystrophy on March 26.
The U.K. Medicines and Health Care Products Regulatory Agency is in the thick of its proposed regulatory overhaul for medical technology, which the agency promises will hew closely to the regulations still in deployment in the European Union.
Beijing- and Shanghai-based Sperogenix Therapeutics Ltd. said that China’s regulatory agency accepted the NDA filing and granted priority review of Agamree (vamorolone) for Duchenne muscular dystrophy on March 26.
Beam Therapeutics Inc. has received clearance of its clinical trial authorization (CTA) application by the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency for BEAM-302, an in vivo base editor, as a potential treatment for patients with α1-antitrypsin deficiency (AATD).
An MHRA investigation that began in the U.K. 16 years ago has concluded with Kamlesh Vaghjiani, a former director of Kappin Ltd., being sentenced to concurrent prison sentences of eight and seven months, both of which are suspended for a year and a half.
Ariceum Therapeutics GmbH has received approval from the U.K.'s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to conduct a phase I trial (CITADEL-123) of 123I-ATT-001, its iodine-123 labeled PARP inhibitor, in patients with recurrent glioblastoma. The study is expected to begin in the U.K. in June of 2024.
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