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A year of significant policy change at the FDA brought momentum and scrutiny into the new year. As 2026 gets underway, biopharma companies are responding to sweeping vaccine changes while concerns surface about the politicization of the agency.
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The FDA has gained a reputation during the past year for being inconsistently flexible, particularly when it comes to rare diseases. Executives at Rezolute and CERo Therapeutics recently had positive interactions with the agency, in which they told BioSpace reviewers have been “collaborative” and “curious.
Since the FDA began publishing its rejections of drug approval filings in July last year, companies have become more forthcoming about the details of agency decisions in their own disclosures, according to biopharma and regulatory analysts.
The upcoming FDA decision for Replimune’s advanced melanoma drug could be a litmus test for the agency’s future regulatory decision-making, analysts say, with implications stretching well beyond one company.
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The FDA committee voted 8 yes and 14 no. The decision now goes back to the OND to decide the FDDR on Avenue Therapeutics’ IV Tramadol.
The NDA acceptance is based on positive results from the KRYSTAL-1 trial, which looked into the effect of using 600mg BID of adagrasib in patients.
After announcing that the FDA was investigating a possible death associated with its lymphoma drug Ukoniq (umbralisib), things are seemingly looking up for TG Therapeutics.
Although the Omicron surge appears to be waning in the U.S., the World Health Organization keeps an eye on four Omicron subvariants.
Eli Lilly’s proposed antibody drug bebtelovimab has received EUA from the FDA after demonstrating its potency against SARS-CoV-2’s Omicron variant.
Shares of Cassava Sciences are up more than 5% in premarket trading after the FDA denied a Citizen Petition filed last year to suspend the company’s Alzheimer’s clinical trials.
On Feb. 15, the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee is scheduled to discuss an amended EUA for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the under 5 age group.
Ardelyx has reported in a regulatory filing that the FDA sent an Appeal Denied Letter for its drug tenapanor, a therapeutic intended for chronic kidney disease.
The FDA is slowing down the process of potentially approving dozens of new medications initially developed for the Chinese market.
An entire lot of the male erectile dysfunction drug The Red Pill is being pulled out of the market following the discovery that it contains some traces of tadalafil.