Akeso Pharmaceuticals Inc. scored two approvals from China’s National Medical Products Administration on Sept. 30 before the long Labor Day holiday – one for its PCSK9 inhibitor, ebronucimab, and the second to expand use of PD-1/CTLA4 bispecific antibody cadonilimab in unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, marking the second indication for cadonilimab in China.
The controversy over conflicts of interest for Jeff Shuren, formerly the director of the U.S. FDA’s device center, reached Capitol Hill and may lead to an executive branch investigation into the matter.
Meeting the deadline the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration imposed in a Sept. 27 final warning letter, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) notified the agency Sept. 30 that it would not implement its proposed 340B rebate model pending resolution of the issues.
The Pi-Cardia Ltd. Shortcut — the catheter-based, leaflet modification solution for treating heart valves — received U.S. FDA clearance. The device was granted breakthrough device designation from the regulatory agency and is designed to split bioprosthetic aortic valve leaflets in patients undergoing valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures who are at risk of coronary obstruction.
GE Healthcare Technologies Inc. received U.S. FDA approval for its novel radiotracer, Flyrcado (flurpiridaz F-18), for use in the diagnosis of myocardial ischemia or infarction in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease.
The U.S. FDA has guidances on the books for dental products, but the it unleashed a quartet of guidances – ceramics and cements used in dental procedure – for dental products on the final Friday of September 2024. The agency also issued a guidance without comment – unusual for the FDA – for the well-known, terror-striking pneumatic dental hand tool.
Precision Biosciences Inc. has submitted its first clinical trial applications (CTAs) to initiate a phase I study evaluating PBGENE-HBV, an in vivo gene editing program designed to potentially cure chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV).
Capricor Therapeutics Inc. just wrapped up a visit with the U.S. FDA and is prepping to file a BLA in October for its Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment. Linda Marbán, the company’s CEO, is the guest on the newest BioWorld Insider podcast and she talks about deramiocel (CAP-1002), the company’s allogeneic cardiac-derived cell therapy, for treating the rare disease and how the FDA has made strong efforts in helping lay the groundwork for deramiocel.
The U.S. FDA has lifted the full clinical hold it imposed in June on Biomea Fusion Inc.’ s phase I/II studies of BMF-219 in types 1 and 2 diabetes. A safety review of the phase IIb expansion study was encouraging and none of the elevated lab values confirmed serious liver injury or impairment, said Biomea’s CEO, Thomas Butler.
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