Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, and other regulatory decisions and designations: Biogen, BMS, Eisai, Innovent, Novartis, Otsuka, Regeneron, Sanofi, Sarepta, Teva.
In October 2025, BioWorld tracked 252 clinical trial updates across phases I-III, roughly in line with September’s 230 but markedly higher than the 95 logged in August. Of those, 27 phase III studies reported positive results, while four disclosed failures. Clinical trial updates logged by BioWorld in October comprised 91 phase I reports, 75 from phase II, and 87 from phase III studies.
Myrio Therapeutics Pty Ltd. has been able to accomplish something no other company has yet been able to crack: to develop binders where both the affinity and the specificity can be increased.
Vigencell Inc. plans to seek conditional approval in South Korea for VT-EBV-N, an antigen-specific killer T-cell therapy for natural killer T-cell lymphoma, after gaining positive top-line data from a phase II study Nov. 25.
The Sept. 4, 2015, at-risk launch of Sandoz Inc.’s Zarxio as the first biosimilar to hit the U.S. market came several months after the FDA had approved the filgrastim biosimilar due to a court battle over the requirements of the 2010 Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act, which laid out the rules of the road for the new class of follow-on drugs. Ten years later, biosimilar developers are still struggling with some of those rules that were drafted by Congress in an effort to balance competition with innovation in the biologics space. Insulin biosimilars may be the hardest hit.