Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Moleculight, Seegene.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Bavarian Nordic, Gilead, Kite, MRM, Sanofi, Schrödinger, Soligenix, Verrica.
Peijia Medical Ltd. has received two marketing approvals from China’s NMPA for its catheters to be used in neurointerventional surgery. They are the balloon guide catheter (BGC) Fluxcap and delivery balloon dilation catheter Fastunnel. Both were developed by Peijia’s wholly owned subsidiary Achieva Medical Ltd.
Shares in Acutus Medical Inc. (NASDAQ:AFIB) are trading 50% higher after the arrhythmia management company reported the launch of an expanded suite of its Acqcross left-heart access products. The Carlsbad, Calif.-based company received an expanded U.S. FDA clearance for its Acqcross Qx system for use with Natick, Mass.-based Boston Scientific Corp.’s Watchman left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) device.
Spero Therapeutics Inc.’s oral antibiotic, tebipenem Hbr, has been rejected by the U.S. FDA for adults with complicated urinary tract infection, after the regulator said a further trial is needed for approval.
COVID-19 boosters for the fall should contain an omicron component, the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biologic Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) said June 28, voting 19-2 to make that recommendation.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Seno Medical, Varian.
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has given Otsuka Holdings Co. Ltd. subsidiary Taiho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. the green light for its oral heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) inhibitor Jeselhy (pimitespib) to treat gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) that have progressed after chemotherapy. The company will soon commercialize the drug in Japan.
The U.S. FDA has placed a clinical hold on Astellas Pharma Inc.’s Fortis phase I/II trial evaluating AT-845 following a serious adverse event of peripheral sensory neuropathy in one of the trial participants. AT-845 is an adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene replacement therapy being studied in adults with late-onset Pompe disease.
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