A frustrating lack of detail left analysts with little to do but speculate on the odds for a 2023 U.S. FDA approval of Ascendis Pharma A/S’s Transcon PTH (palopegteriparatide), a parathyroid hormone prodrug for hypoparathyroidism, after the company disclosed a letter from the agency citing unspecified deficiencies that preclude further discussions about labeling and postmarketing requirements.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Akebia, Akero, Algo, Athos, Comanche, Decibel, Immvira, Merck & Co., Pacira, Pathovax, Renovion, Vistagen.
Whether it’s legislation calling for more transparency from pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) or hearings held in search of a new roadmap to modernize the U.S. drug supply chain, Congress is scrutinizing and looking to clamp down on the role PBMs are playing in raising drug prices.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Blueprint, Eloxx, Epicentrx, Hansa, Juno, Pharmather, Regeneron, Transcenta.
U.S. FDA commissioner Robert Califf went to Capitol Hill ostensibly to answer questions about the agency’s budget request for fiscal 2024, but the conversation quickly focused on issues such as baby formula and food supply security.
U.S. lawmakers have been busy writing to government agencies demanding answers and explanations on a range of issues, including drug shortages, gain-of-function research and thickets of duplicative patents that extend patent protection well beyond 20 years for some prescription drugs.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: ARS, BMS, CSL, Ionctura, Maat, Thermosome, Tiziana.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Amicus, Brainstorm Cell, Cyclerion, Genentech, Incyte, Iovance, Oncology.
China’s NMPA granted conditional approval for a COVID-19 oral pill to treat adult patients with mild to moderate cases of the virus to a unit of Guangdong Zhongsheng Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. RAY-1216 is a peptidomimetic inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro), which is also known as a 3C-like protease (3CLpro).
A lot of eyes and ears were tuned to the U.S. Supreme Court’s March 27 argument in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi SA with its focus on how much enablement is necessary in broad genus patent claims.