The data package for Filsuvez (birch triterpenes), a topical gel aimed at treating partial thickness wounds, satisfied U.S. reviewers the second time around. Chiesi Group said the FDA approved the treatment Dec. 19 for use in patients 6 months and older with rare blistering skin diseases junctional epidermolysis bullosa and dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.
With the use of artificial intelligence (AI) increasing in both biopharma R&D and the regulatory science used to evaluate new drug candidates in member states, the EMA and Heads of Medicines Agencies have laid out a five-year workplan to ensure that the European medicines regulatory network remains at the forefront in benefiting from AI in medicines regulation.
Chinese patients will soon have wider access to newly approved cancer drugs following the publication of the 2024 National Reimbursement Drug List (NRDL) that added 126 new drugs to the list. Price cuts to drugs averaged 61.7%. The additions and cuts are in line with the previous year.
Shares of Checkpoint Therapeutics Inc. dropped 44.8% Dec. 18 on news that the U.S. FDA issued a complete response letter (CRL), delaying potential approval of PD-L1 antibody cosibelimab in metastatic or locally advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. The FDA had accepted in March the BLA, seeking use for treating patients who are not candidates for curative surgery or radiation, setting a Jan. 3, 2024, PDUFA date.
Both the U.K. MHRA and the U.S. FDA approved their first CRISPR-based gene therapy in 2023. Crispr Therapeutics AG and partner Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s Casgevy (exagamglogene autotemcel, exa-cel) was approved by the MHRA in November and the FDA on Dec. 8. The U.K. approval is for both severe sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependent thalassemia (TDT). In the U.S., the approval is for severe SCD, with a PDUFA date for TDT coming up in spring 2024.
Following the recommendation of its Oncology Drugs Advisory Committee, the U.S. FDA approved U.S. Worldmeds LLC’s eflornithine 192-mg tablets for use as a maintenance therapy in patients with high-risk neuroblastoma. Branded Iwilfin, the specific, irreversible inhibitor of ornithine decarboxylase previously known as DFMO, is expected to be available in the coming weeks.
Artificial intelligence has morphed from a buzzword referencing a popular curiosity to a series of national security and competitiveness considerations, which was reflected in the tone of a recent hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Putting into jeopardy what was on track to be the first approved therapy in Europe for geographic atrophy (GA), an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration that causes blindness, Apellis Pharmaceuticals Inc. learned of a negative trend vote by the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) on its MAA for intravitreal pegcetacoplan.
The U.S. FDA is assembling a new advisory committee specifically focused on treatments for genetic metabolic diseases. The Genetic Metabolic Diseases Advisory Committee, or GeMDAC, will be tasked with providing agency reviewers independent expert recommendations regarding regulatory applications as well as advice on scientific and policy issues.
Sanofi SA backed out of its $750 million effort to advance Maze Therapeutics Inc.’s oral Pompe disease candidate, MZE-001, after the U.S. FTC filed a federal lawsuit to block the deal, claiming the Paris-based firm was seeking to eliminate a nascent competitor.
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