The U.K. government has secured a deal guaranteeing there will be no tariffs on the £6.6 billion (US$8.7 billion) of pharmaceutical products exported annually to the U.S., as part of a package of measures under which the U.K. will pay more for patented drugs.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy continued his last-minute musical chairs ahead of the Dec. 4-5 meeting of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) when he named Kirk Milhoan as the new chair of the panel that advises the CDC on vaccine schedules.
Wall Street was sorting through two batches of news from Jasper Therapeutics Inc., which made public positive data from the phase Ib study called Etesian with KIT-targeting briquilimab in adults with allergic asthma, while making known the outcome of a probe into the phase Ib/II Beacon study with the same drug in chronic spontaneous urticaria.
Vandria SA published phase I data on a potential new mechanism of action in treating Alzheimer’s disease, demonstrating its orally available and brain-penetrant mitochondria-boosting compound, VNA-318, engages its intended target.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, and other regulatory decisions and designations: Ascendis, Astrazeneca, Beone, Novo Nordisk, Otsuka, Sun.
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