Approvals
The approval was specifically for patients with recurrent or advanced endometrial cancer who had progressed on or after previous treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy and whose cancers have a dMMR genetic anomaly.
Amgen announced the U.S. FDA awarded Breakthrough Therapy Designation to the bemarituzumab as a first-line treatment for certain types of gastric cancer.
Opdivo, the trade name for the generic Nivolumab, can now be used in combination with certain types of chemotherapy for initial treatment of advanced or metastatic gastric cancer, gastroesophageal junction cancer and esophageal adenocarcinoma.
The reason for the request was the monotherapy antibody therapy is less effective against the COVID-19 variants, such as have risen from the U.K., South Africa and Brazil, as well as the growing B.1.427/B.1.429 California variant.
The approval marks the second approval for Trodelvy, which Gilead gained through its $21 billion acquisition of Immunomedics.
On Tuesday, Celularity received Orphan Drug Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its off-the-shelf natural killer cell therapy for malignant gliomas.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted vTv Therapeutics’ TTP399 Breakthrough Therapy designation for type 1 diabetes. This designation provides companies more support and the possibility of shorter development and review timelines.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a prefilled syringe for self-injection of an allergic diseases treatment developed by Novartis and Genentech, a Roche company.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s schedule for April has several PDUFA dates scattered across the rest of the month. Here’s a look.
The agency granted full approval to Gilead Sciences’ Trodelvy (Sacituzumab govitecan-hziy) for adults with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) who have received two or more previous system therapies, at least one for metastatic disease.
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