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Industry lauds progress seen in Australia’s National Medicines Policy consultation

Oct. 11, 2022
By Tamra Sami
A review of Australia’s National Medicines Policy was begun in August 2021 but was paused until after the federal election in May to allow stakeholders more time to provide feedback.
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CSL’s Seqirus snags $30M contract with BARDA to develop pandemic avian flu vaccines

Oct. 10, 2022
By Tamra Sami
CSL Ltd. subsidiary Seqirus inked a $30.1 million deal with the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop and evaluate two influenza A subtype H2Nx (avian flu) vaccines in a phase I trial.
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Industry lauds progress seen in Australia’s National Medicines Policy consultation

Oct. 7, 2022
By Tamra Sami
A review of Australia’s National Medicines Policy was begun in August 2021 but was paused until after the federal election in May to allow stakeholders more time to provide feedback.
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Atmo - CEO - Malcolm Hebblewhite

Atmo’s ingestible gas-sensing capsule tracks transit time through the gastrointestinal tract

Oct. 6, 2022
By Tamra Sami
Atmo Biosciences Ltd. is gearing up for pivotal trials of its ingestible gas-sensing capsule after a clinical study supported the gas capsule’s ability to determine its location in the gastrointestinal tract.
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Lumos’ 510(k) hopes for Febridx quashed with second FDA rejection

Oct. 5, 2022
By Tamra Sami
Rapid point-of-care (POC) diagnostics company Lumos Diagnostics Holdings Pty. Ltd. has had its hopes of entering the U.S. market dashed yet again following a second decision from the FDA that Febridx has not demonstrated substantial equivalence to the predicate device identified in its 510(k) application.
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Drug Design, Drug Delivery & Technologies

CRISPR activation mouse model can turn on previously silenced genes

Oct. 4, 2022
By Tamra Sami
Researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a new genome editing technique than can activate any gene, including those that have been silenced, allowing new drug targets and causes of drug resistance to be explored.
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Top-line results suggest Paradigm’s injectable Zilosul could be disease-modifying in osteoarthritis

Oct. 4, 2022
By Tamra Sami
Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. reported top-line data from its phase II trial of Zilosul (pentosan polysulfate/PPS) that suggest the non-opioid treatment for knee osteoarthritis is effective in navigating pain management but also has the potential to be disease modifying.
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Liver

FDA greenlights Taiho’s FGFR inhibitor Lytgobi for intrahepatic cholangiocardinoma

Oct. 4, 2022
By Tamra Sami
The U.S. FDA has approved Taiho Oncology Inc.’s Lytgobi (futibatinib) for adults with previously treated, unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma harboring fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR-2) gene fusions or other rearrangements. The approval arrived on its Sept. 30 PDUFA date.
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Japan’s MHLW approves raft of new drugs

Oct. 4, 2022
By Tamra Sami
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) approved a slew of new drugs in the last week of September, including Japan’s first sustained release GIP/GLP-1 receptor agonist for type 2 diabetes from Eli Lilly and Co. and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp.; a self-administered injectable drug for rheumatoid arthritis from Eisai Co. Ltd. and Nippon Medac Co. Ltd.; a CAR T from Legend Biotech Corp. and Janssen Pharmaceutical KK; and two drugs from Astrazeneca plc, one in asthma and the other in pediatric plexiform neurofibromas in neurofibromatosis type 1.
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Clarity in early Alzheimer’s a breakthrough as lecanemab meets primary, secondary endpoints

Oct. 4, 2022
By Tamra Sami
Analysts were upbeat about positive results from Eisai Co Ltd. and Biogen Inc.’s phase III confirmatory Clarity Alzheimer’s disease (AD) trial of lecanemab that met both primary and secondary endpoints, and most agreed that the data should be enough to gain FDA approval for mild cognitive impairment due to AD.
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