Bristol Meyers Squibb Co. (BMS) joined the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) pile-on June 16, filing a third constitutional challenge to the U.S. Medicare drug price negotiations mandated in the law that was narrowly passed last year on a partisan vote.
Following the death of a patient, the U.S. FDA halted Arcellx Inc.’s phase II pivotal trial of its CAR T-cell therapy for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (MM), putting Gilead Sciences Inc., which in December made the risky decision to part with $225 million up front for rights to the immunotherapy, in likely turmoil.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: F2G, Freya, Iaso, Sirnaomics, SK.
What could be the first newly approved antifungal in nearly 20 years based on a novel mechanism hit a bump as F2G Ltd. has received a complete response letter from the U.S. FDA.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: BMS, Genentech, GSK, Nanjing Leads Biolabs, Reata, Roche, TG Immunopharma, TME.
In its first untitled letter in more than a year, the U.S. FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) took Xeris Biopharma Holdings Inc. to task for two webpages promoting the company’s Recorlev.
The first five months of the year showed a slight increase in U.S. FDA approvals, though numbers are down compared to the previous four years. Worldwide approvals are down 16.67% through May, but up 5.42% compared to the previous seven years’ average.
The U.S. FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) voted unanimously to recommend COVID-19 vaccines for the 2023-2024 vaccination campaign be monovalent vaccines that target the XBB variants, currently the most prominent variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Patients with an aggressive form of lymphoma who have failed prior therapies now have a new option for treatment with the U.S. FDA’s accelerated approval of Columvi (glofitamab-gxbm), which was granted under priority review a few weeks ahead of the July 1 PDUFA date.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Altamira, Anavex, Avenge, Biostar, Glycomimetics, Ipsen, Mabwell, Medexus, Mersana, NS, Seagen, Takeda, UCB.