Approvals

BioMarin announced Tuesday that the FDA has accepted its supplemental New Drug Application to expand Voxzogo for children younger than five years with achondroplasia.
Wednesday, the FDA’s VRBPAC agreed that GSK’s respiratory syncytial virus vaccine candidate is safe and effective in older adults.
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The FDA greenlit Reata Pharmaceuticals’ omaveloxolone (Skyclarys) as the first and only treatment for Friedreich’s ataxia, a rare, life-limiting neuromuscular disorder.
The hits kept coming for the sickle cell disease space last week as the FDA placed a full clinical hold on Fulcrum Therapeutics’ Investigational New Drug application FTX-6058.
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The FDA approved Sanofi and Sweden-based Sobi’s efanesoctocog alfa, now marketed as Altuviiio, to treat bleeding in adults and children with hemophilia A.
There are currently no disease-modifying treatments for Friedreich’s ataxia. That could change when the FDA makes a decision about Reata Pharmaceuticals’ omaveloxolone on Feb. 28.
After overcoming a clinical hold, Astellas presented preliminary safety and efficacy data from the Phase I/II FORTIS trial of AT845 in late-onset Pompe disease at the 19th Annual WORLDSymposium 2023.
On Friday, the FDA approved Apellis Pharmaceuticals’ Syfovre (pegcetacoplan) as the first treatment for geographic atrophy (GA), a leading cause of blindness.
Takeda’s vedolizumab met its primary endpoint in the Phase III GRAPHITE study, significantly improving event-free survival in patients with acute graft-versus-host disease.
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The FDA granted accelerated approval Friday to Travere Therapeutics’ sparsentan, now to be marketed as Filspari, to reduce the burden of proteinuria in adults with primary IgA nephropathy.
PRESS RELEASES