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There were two reported cases of trials restarting and one pausing this week. Here’s a look.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared an Investigational New Drug application that will allow Boston-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals to proceed with a clinical trial of its investigational stem cell-derived, fully differentiated pancreatic islet cell treatment for type 1 diabetes (T1D).
February is kicking off with a number of PDUFA dates for the U.S. FDA as well as a cancer advisory committee meeting. Here’s a look.
The decision by the FDA on the drug application was expected on March 7, but is now delayed until June 7, 2021.
The FDA is on a roll granting approvals. Three companies announced IND updates today.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to Aurinia’s Lupkynis (voclosporin) in combination with a background immunosuppressive therapy regimen for LN.
The drug, a combination of cabotegravir and rilpivirine, is a complete therapy for HIV-1 infection in adults who are virologically suppressed.
The U.S. FDA has accepted Genentech’s supplemental New Drug Application and has granted Priority Review for the company’s unclassifiable interstitial lung disease (UILD) treatment Esbriet® (pirfenidone).
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Merck and Bayer’s heart failure drug vericiguat, an orally administered soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) stimulator, the pharma giants announced this morning.
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