The FDA has granted orphan drug designation to Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s VGT-1849B, a selective peptide nucleic acid-based JAK2 inhibitor for the treatment of polycythemia vera (PV).
A U.S. appeals court schooled the FDA as it handed Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. a “technical knockout” of sorts in yet another regulatory bout with the agency – this one over the FDA’s refusal to grant the company’s request for a hearing after it had received a complete response letter (CRL) for a jet lag supplemental indication for Hetlioz (tasimelteon).
A U.S. FDA CDER official is among the first to say the quiet part out loud in proposing a Sept. 12 deadline for the agency to respond to Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s request for summary judgment or a hearing on CDER’s refusal to approve tradipitant to treat gastroparesis.
A U.S. Federal Claims Court judge shot down Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s accusations that the FDA disclosed the company’s trade secrets to generic competitors, finding that the trade secrets weren’t really secret or necessarily proprietary to Vanda.
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s VGT-1849A, a selective antisense oligonucleotide (ASO)-based JAK2 inhibitor, has been awarded orphan drug designation by the FDA for the treatment of polycythemia vera.
Clearly frustrated by the U.S. FDA’s rejection of tradipitant to treat gastroparesis, Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. CEO Mihael Polymeropoulos said the agency is discouraging drug development for the serious gastric emptying condition for which there has been no new treatment in 40 years. The complete response letter (CRL) issued on the Sept. 18 PDUFA date for the neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist, which Vanda licensed from Eli Lilly and Co. in 2012, requested additional studies that the company said are not in line with the advice of experts in the field.
Washington-based Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. has faced a challenging few years involving a federal lawsuit against the U.S. FDA, patent infringement litigation, increasing generic competition and dwindling sales, as well as a complete response letter nixing plans to expand its melatonin receptor agonist Hetlioz (tasimelteon) into insomnia, yet it has recently received a higher, unsolicited acquisition offer of $466 million from a second company, Cycle Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Is it an unconstitutional taking when U.S. FDA reviewers disclose a brand company’s claimed trade secrets or confidential commercial information to would-be competitors? That’s a question the U.S. Court of Federal Claims has yet to answer. While the court dismissed some of Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s claims against the FDA, its Jan. 18 opinion left open the debate of whether such disclosures, intentional or inadvertent, are a per se or regulatory taking.
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) VCA-894A has been awarded orphan drug designation by the FDA for the treatment of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, axonal, type 2S (CMT2S), caused by cryptic splice site variants within IGHMBP2.
