Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abbvie, Astrazeneca, Biontech, Cardiff, Cidara, Edesa, Faron, Fosun, Immunicum, Meiragtx, Merck, Mundipharma, Nanoscope, OS Therapies, Recordati, Veralox, Vertex.
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. got its first drug approval with the FDA’s nod to Lupkynis (voclosporin) for treating active lupus nephritis in adults. It’s the first FDA-approved oral therapy for the indication and the second approval in little more than a month for those patients, following the agency’s Dec. 17 approval of Glaxosmithkline plc’s Benlysta (belimumab), for treating active LN.
A consequence of one of President Joe Biden’s first executive orders (EOs) is that some low-income patients may have to wait at least two more months to get the out-of-pocket relief they were promised for insulin and injectable epinephrine.
PERTH, Australia – Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has granted provisional approval to Pfizer Australia Pty Ltd. for its COVID-19 vaccine, branded Comirnaty, making it the first COVID-19 vaccine to receive approval in Australia.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abeona, Albireo, Arrowhead, Astrazeneca, Aurinia, Beigene, EMD Serono, Eusa, Iterum, Junshi, Pfizer, Waymade.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting biopharma, including: And now the state cases; Advamed urges administration to communicate on DPA; Looking for GCP volunteers.
Busting a logjam of inadequate data sharing methods and communications between pharmas and health authorities around the world is the impetus behind the creation of nonprofit Accumulus Synergy Inc., whose common, cloud-based platform is designed to make the regulatory process easier for everyone involved. The coalition’s initial membership is a Who’s Who of big pharma: Amgen Inc., Astellas Pharma Inc., Bristol Myers Squibb Co., Glaxosmithkline plc, the Janssen Pharmaceutical Cos. of Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly and Co., Pfizer Inc., Roche Holding AG, Sanofi SA and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.
Clinical and regulatory data reported in 2020 are up 24% and 47%, respectively, over the prior year, proving to be the busiest 12 months on record for the biopharma industry, in spite of, or perhaps because of, a deadly global pandemic.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Biocryst, Clinigen, Exelixis, GC, Helsinn, Incyte, Ono, Viiv.