Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abionyx, Antengene, ASC, Biogen, Guerbet, Hipra, Nurix, Realta, Receptor, Taiho, Viiv.
Opinion on Wall Street said the matter could have gone either way, but in the end Akebia Therapeutics Inc.’s vadadustat, a HIF prolyl-hydroxylase inhibitor for anemia caused by chronic kidney disease (CKD), garnered a complete response letter (CRL) instead of approval from the FDA. The news slammed Akebia shares (NASDAQ:AKBA), which closed at 82 cents, down $1.61, or 66%. Specifically, the agency said that the data in the NDA do not support a favorable benefit-risk assessment of vadadustat in dialysis-dependent (DD) and non-DDs patients.
Unless the U.S. FDA once again overrides its Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee, it looks like the ALS community will have a longer wait for an additional tool against the fatal, degenerative disease. After hearing from both Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. and FDA reviewers, along with 26 people testifying during the open public hearing, the committee voted March 30 against approval of AMX-0035, a fixed-dose combination of sodium phenylbutyrate and taurursodiol, as a much-needed treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Antares, Astrazeneca, BMS, Canbridge, CSL, Daewoong, Enanta, Immunogen, Mitsubishi Tanabe, Neurocrine, Novo Nordisk, Noxopharm, Reveragen, Santhera, Takeda, Urogen, Telix.
Sanofi SA’s enzyme replacement therapy, Xenpozyme (olipudase alfa), has been approved for use in Japan, making it the world’s first and only approved therapy to treat acid sphingomyelinase deficiency (ASMD), also known as Niemann-Pick type B disease. Sanofi’s executive vice president and global head of R&D, John Reed, hailed it as a “watershed moment” that was the culmination of 20 years of research.
Policymakers shouldn’t look to march-in rights as a simple solution to make medical products more affordable, according to experts speaking at an Information Technology & Innovation Foundation discussion on how using the march-in provisions of the Bayh-Dole Act as price controls would threaten America’s research universities.
Regenerative medicine company Sanbio Co. Ltd. submitted its BLA for its lead mesenchymal stem cell-based treatment, SB-623, to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for chronic motor deficit due to traumatic brain injury. The application was submitted through Japan’s Sakigake designation system.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Astrazeneca, Biontech, Blue Lake, Cormedix, CSL, Cynavac, Galapagos, GSK, Hansa, Helsinn, Immorna, Innocare, Medison, Moberg, Moderna, Pfizer, Pipeline, Sanofi, Seqirus, Stealth, Tolerogenixx, UCB, Vir.
The Biden administration has floated a budget proposal for fiscal year 2023, which includes $49 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and an additional FDA budget authority of $356 million over the current fiscal year. However, the budget also includes legislative proposals, such as a virtual inspection requirement for device manufacturing facilities and compulsory studies of drug shelf life to evaluate finished drug stability beyond the labeled expiration.
China’s NMPA has given a green light for Walvax Biotechnology Co. Ltd.’s human papillomavirus (HPV) bivalent vaccine to be used against HPV types 16 and 18 to prevent cervical cancer.
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