Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abbvie, Astrazeneca, Cstone, Kiora, Moderna, Sobi.
Marinus Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s GABAA receptor agonist Ztalmy (ganaxolone), has won U.S. FDA approval for treating seizures associated with cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 (CDKL5) deficiency disorder.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abbvie, Amolyt, Aquestive, Bioheng, Heron, Inflarx, Moderna, TC, Tetra.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Adagene, Aim Immunotech, Biontech, Brii, Iovance, Kaléo, Ossium Health, Pfizer, Shionogi, Sonnet, The AIDS Clinical Trials Group.
With global COVID-19 cases on the rise once again, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said it reached consensus among four WTO members – the U.S., European Union, India and South Africa – for an IP waiver regarding vaccines, a proposal to which biopharma reiterated its objections. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the White House appealed to Congress to provide adequate funding to continue the country’s pandemic response, and Pfizer Inc. and Biontech SE submitted an application to the FDA seeking emergency use authorization for a fourth shot of its COVID-19 vaccine.
When it comes to lowering U.S. drug prices, Congress has a lot of options among the several bills that have been introduced in both the House and Senate over the years. But a deadlock between bipartisan measures and partisan proposals has reduced legislative action to mere talk. The deadlock, and the at times hyperbolic debate, continued in yet another congressional hearing March 16 on “the urgent need to lower drug prices in Medicare,” as the Senate Finance Committee billed it.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Allarity, Arrowhead, Beigene, Kairos, Maia, Medison, Myrtelle, Pepgen, Quoin, Wesana.
Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. has won a green light for inebilizumab, approved by China’s NMPA for the treatment of adults with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) who are anti-aquaporin-4 immunoglobulin G (AQP4-IgG) seropositive. The decision marked Hansoh’s first biologic approval.
The bipartisan PREVENT Pandemics Act, which seeks to put into U.S. law many of the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, marked its first milestone March 15, with the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee sending it to the full Senate with a do-pass recommendation on a 20-2 vote.
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