Xgene Pharmaceutical Pty Ltd., a subsidiary of Xgene Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., has received approval in Australia to initiate a phase I trial of the selective TRPM8 blocker XG-2002 (RQ-00434739).
Asieris Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. announced that it has received approval to commence phase I clinical trials in Australia of its novel antibacterial drug, APL-2301 (ASN-1733, MET-102), under development for the treatment of Acinetobacter baumannii infections.
Iecure Inc. has received clearance from the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of the company’s clinical trial notification (CTN) for ECUR-506 (formerly GTP-506), an investigational therapy in development for the treatment of ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency in pediatric (or neonatal) patients.
Multinational pharma companies like Moderna Inc. and Sanofi SA are setting up mRNA R&D centers in Australia and are banking on the country’s decades of mRNA expertise to bring new therapeutics to the clinic and to serve as regional hubs in Asia Pacific, speakers said during the Ausbiotech 2023 conference held Nov 1-3 in Brisbane, Australia.
Multinational pharma companies like Moderna Inc. and Sanofi SA are setting up mRNA R&D centers in Australia and are banking on the country’s decades of mRNA expertise to bring new therapeutics to the clinic and to serve as regional hubs in Asia Pacific, speakers said during the Ausbiotech 2023 conference held Nov 1-3 in Brisbane, Australia.
Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has issued a regulatory proposal regarding the agency’s approach to audits for devices, a proposal that might reduce the number of these audits. TGA said it may limit audits to the highest-risk devices and may eliminate them for devices that have been granted market access in other regulatory jurisdictions.
Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is reconsidering its approach to regulating devices that bear materials of animal, microbial or recombinant origin, a broad class of products that includes transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) devices.
The difficulties in rolling out the EU’s Medical Device Regulation are well known, but the attendant delays continue to exert ripple effects in other markets. The U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has formally extended the time frame for acceptance of existing CE marked devices into the U.K. market, another demonstration of the ongoing turmoil associated with the herky-jerky deployment of the MDR.
The EU’s In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (IVDR) has not yet been fully implemented, but Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Authority (TGA) is wasting no time attempting to harmonize with the IVDR.
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