After previous setbacks with the program, investors largely brushed aside ocular-focused Kodiak Sciences Inc.’s anticipated phase III Glow2 data of tarcocimab tedromer in diabetic retinopathy (DR), so the positive top-line superiority results revealed March 26 caught many by surprise as it sets the company up for an accelerated multi-indication BLA submission.
Rakuten Medical Inc. raised $100 million in a series F round to support late-stage clinical development of ASP-1929, its Alluminox-derived photoimmunotherapy being tested with Keytruda (pembrolizumab) as a first-line treatment for recurrent head and neck cancer.
Restricting the recommended use of COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. wasn’t enough. Now the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is trying to get the FDA to revoke the BLAs for all versions of the Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc.-Biontech SE COVID-19 vaccines.
The U.S. FDA granted accelerated approval for the Biologics License Application for Axogen Inc.'s Avance, an acellular nerve allograft that serves as a scaffold for nerve regrowth, for treatment of patients with sensory, mixed and motor peripheral nerve discontinuities. The company expects Avance to be commercially available in the second quarter of 2026.
Just two months after Inozyme Pharma Inc. cut its workforce by 25% and prioritized activities to focus on a BLA filing for INZ-701 for ENPP1 deficiency, interim phase III data from its Energy 3 trial showed consistent safety and immunogenicity and increased phosphate levels in patients treated with the rare disease enzyme replacement therapy.
The U.S. FDA granted Abbvie Inc. accelerated approval for antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) Teliso-V (telisotuzumab vedotin), newly branded Emrelis, making it the first treatment for previously treated advanced non-small-cell lung cancer with high c-Met protein overexpression.
After a second round, the U.S. FDA has accepted for review radiopharmaceutical company Telix Pharmaceuticals Ltd.’s BLA for its kidney cancer PET imaging agent, TLX250-CDx (Zircaix, 89Zr-DFO-girentuximab), granting it a priority review with a PDUFA date of Aug. 27, 2025.
After a second round, the U.S. FDA has accepted for review radiopharmaceutical company Telix Pharmaceuticals Ltd.’s BLA for its kidney cancer PET imaging agent, TLX250-CDx (Zircaix, 89Zr-DFO-girentuximab), granting it a priority review with a PDUFA date of Aug. 27, 2025.
After a second round, the U.S. FDA has accepted for review radiopharmaceutical company Telix Pharmaceuticals Ltd.’s BLA for its kidney cancer PET imaging agent, TLX250-CDx (Zircaix, 89Zr-DFO-girentuximab), granting it a priority review with a PDUFA date of Aug. 27, 2025.
Outlook Therapeutics Inc. is forging onward with plans to resubmit the BLA for ONS-5010, an ophthalmic version of Avastin (bevacizumab, Roche AG), after a missed endpoint in phase III with the VEGF binder for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
