Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Arbutus, Arch, Corat, Cytocom, Meissa, Merck & Co., Pep-Therapy, Sagimet, Spectrum, Visus.
While World Trade Organization members continue to debate a proposal to waive intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines and therapies, Biolyse Pharma Corp. is threatening to apply for a compulsory license of Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose vaccine through the Canadian Access to Medicines Regime.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Bioxcel, Calliditas, Histogen, Melinta, Oryzon, Pharmaessentia, Tetra.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting biopharma, including: FDA launches EUA safety dashboard; Fed Circuit claims mandamus jurisdiction in IPR institution; Comment period reopened on Orange Book patents.
Remegen Co. Ltd.’s RC-18 (telitacicept) was granted conditional approval for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), marking the first NDA approval for the company that launched the world’s biggest biotech IPO last year.
FDA approvals in February nearly doubled those of the prior month, although biopharma regulatory data, aside from efforts targeting COVID-19, continue to decline.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Eisai, J&J, RDIF, Sanofi, Takeda.
What started with Austrian regulators suspending use of one batch of Astrazeneca plc’s COVID-19 vaccine has expanded into precautionary holds in Denmark and other EU countries as PRAC, the EMA’s safety committee, investigates whether blood clots, which have resulted in at least two deaths in Europe, are connected to the vaccine.
Oncology drugs that have racked up a number of indications through accelerated approvals are losing some of those indications as the result of an FDA industrywide evaluation of confirmatory trials that didn’t back up the approvals.