Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Astrazeneca, Biontech, Blue Lake, Cormedix, CSL, Cynavac, Galapagos, GSK, Hansa, Helsinn, Immorna, Innocare, Medison, Moberg, Moderna, Pfizer, Pipeline, Sanofi, Seqirus, Stealth, Tolerogenixx, UCB, Vir.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Biobeat, Staar Surgical.
The European Commission has acted to thwart cybersecurity risks with a proposed cybersecurity regulation and separate proposal for information security. What is not clear, however, from these proposals is whether they would interact with existing EU rules governing cybersecurity for medical devices, raising the prospect that medical technologies will be subject duplicate oversight for cybersecurity.
Shenzhen Xzing Technology Co. Ltd.’s Endofresh disposable upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscope has granted the NMPA’s class II approval. The company said the approved product is used for upper gastrointestinal GI endoscopy, diagnosis and treatment.
The Biden administration has floated a budget proposal for fiscal year 2023, which includes $49 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and an additional FDA budget authority of $356 million over the current fiscal year. However, the budget also includes legislative proposals, such as a virtual inspection requirement for device manufacturing facilities and compulsory studies of drug shelf life to evaluate finished drug stability beyond the labeled expiration.
China’s NMPA has given a green light for Walvax Biotechnology Co. Ltd.’s human papillomavirus (HPV) bivalent vaccine to be used against HPV types 16 and 18 to prevent cervical cancer.
Zogenix Inc.’s Fintepla (fenfluramine) cleared the U.S. FDA hurdle shortly after its March 25 PDUFA date, expanding the drug’s use in patients with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) and validating UCB SA’s $1.9 billion acquisition of Emeryville, Calif.-based firm, which closed earlier this month.
Investors didn’t respond well to the U.S. FDA’s briefing document for the March 30 advisory committee meeting on Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) candidate. Shortly after the materials for the adcom were posted Monday, Amylyx (NASDAQ:AMLX) dropped from a morning high of $25.68 per share to an all-time low of $10.49 in the heaviest trading since the company went public in January. With share volume exceeding 15 million, Amylyx rebounded somewhat, ending the day at $16.01, down nearly 36% from its March 25 close of $25.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Adma, Aquavit, Astrazeneca, Blueprint, Exelixis,
Henlius, Incyte, Janssen, Kyowa Kirin, Mei. Merck, Neuren, Novartis, Roche, Vertex.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Cutera, HLT, Lazurite, Sky Medical.