Just days after U.S. FDA advisors unanimously backed use of both the Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc.-Biontech SE COVID-19 vaccines in children 6 months and older, the FDA has expanded emergency use authorizations for the products. Availability could follow as soon as June 21, after a meeting of the CDC’s ongoing Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, wraps up June 18.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Aquestive, Bavarian, Checkpoint, Cytokinetics, Galecto, Moleculin, Plus, Roche, Sirnaomics, Vicore.
What was billed as a U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing June 16 to get an update from top government health officials on the nation’s response to COVID-19 was, in reality, a concerted effort to get Republicans in the U.S. Senate to open the checkbook so the Biden administration could fill in the amount for more COVID-19 spending, Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-N.C.) charged as he concluded the hearing.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: 180, Biontech, Covis, Horizon, Jazz, Kintara, Moderna, Omega, Pfizer, Phanes, Redx.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Aceragen, Astrocyte, Attralus, Biogen, Clovis, Fusion, Halia, Immunic, Kymera, Pfizer, Recordati, Renibus, Scancell.
After a two-day session of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biologic Products Advisory Committee, the U.S. is within days of a long-awaited milestone of having not just one but at least two vaccines available for nearly every American. The VRBPAC voted unanimously, 21-0, June 15 to support amending the emergency use authorizations for both the Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc.-Biontech SE COVID-19 mRNA vaccines to allow their use in children 6 months and older.
A day after announcing it would pump $120 million into a Michigan manufacturing facility for Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir/ritonavir), Pfizer Inc. produced new data it plans to use in an U.S. NDA submission for treating COVID-19. While some data for the oral antiviral fell short of statistical significance, other companies are not far behind Pfizer in their drive for FDA acceptance using similar approaches.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Alnylam, Attgeno, Cellenkos, Eli Lilly, Incyte, Innovent, Moderna, Nammi, Outlook, Stealth, Tremeau.
Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Blue Earth, Boehringer, Contrafect, Evotec, Hemostemix, Heron, Hibio, Incyte, J&J, Jupiter, Maia, Morphosys, Oragenics, Pfizer, Pike, Precerv, Telix, Trutino, Vyluma.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Actinogen, Biomarin, Clover, Codagenix, Exscientia, Freeline, Genexine, Huyabio, Puretech, Soleno, Treadwell, Zhimeng.
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