Topping biopharma regulatory news in 2022 was the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), as its provisions requiring Medicare to directly negotiate certain prescription drug prices will open the door for the first time to a degree of government price controls in the U.S., affecting the bottom line of drug companies around the world.
Viral specialist Gilead Sciences Inc.’s U.S. FDA clearance for twice-yearly Sunlenca (lenacapavir) in combination with other antiretroviral therapies for HIV-1 infection provides heavily treatment-experienced patients a new option, and gives the company room to flex with new add-ons.
Sciclone Pharmaceuticals Holdings Ltd. has obtained marketing approval in China for Danyelza (naxitamab) for patients with relapsed or refractory high-risk neuroblastoma. The drug, in combination with granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor, was approved to treat pediatric patients aged 1 and above, as well as adults, who have relapsed or refractory high-risk neuroblastoma in the bone or bone marrow and have demonstrated a partial or minor response to prior therapy or stable disease.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Astellas, Entrada, Horizon, Idorsia, Invectys, Iveric, Kira, Maia, Merck & Co., Mitsubishi Tanabe, NS, Seagen, Skye.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abbvie, Albireo, Arcutis, Ardelyx, Astrazeneca, Biocytogen, Bluebird, Daiichi Sankyo, Eagle, Eqrx, F2G, Ferring, HRA, Hutchmed, Neurophth, On Target, TG Immunopharma, Perrigo, Recbio.
Ferring Pharmaceuticals A/S has notched another U.S. FDA approval, this time for a bladder cancer treatment, Adstiladrin (nadofaragene firadenovec). The non-replicating adenovirus vector-based gene therapy’s approval comes only weeks after the FDA’s Nov. 30 approval of the privately held company’s Rebyota (fecal microbiota, live), the first fecal microbiota treatment in the U.S. Adstiladrin is another landmark, as the first FDA-approved gene therapy to treat high-risk, non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Saint-Prex, Switzerland-based Ferring said it anticipates the product becoming commercially available in the U.S. in the second half of 2023.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abbvie, Alexbio, Amicus, Apellis, Boehringer Ingelheim, CSL Behring, Eli Lilly, Jacobio, Miromatrix, Moderna, Ocugen, Roche, Regeneron, Sanofi, Uniqure, Y-Mabs.
Chinese authorities this year for the first time allowed access for complete U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) audit inspections and investigations of PCAOB-registered public accounting firms headquartered in China and Hong Kong, in accordance with U.S. securities law.
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