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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 approved Takeda’s Livtencity (maribavir) for adults and children 12 years or older with post-transplant cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection.
Shares of Aadi Bioscience were up more than 25% in premarket trading after announcing the FDA greenlit its treatment for a rare and aggressive form of cancer that disproportionately affects women.
The FDA has granted Cambridge-based bluebird Bio a Priority Review of its Biologics License Application for betibeglogene autotemcel (beti-cel).
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a few PDUFA dates for the Thanksgiving Holiday week. Here’s a look.
BioMarin Pharmaceutical scored a first on Friday and provided an option for patients with a rare disease for which there is little recourse.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for all Americans ages 18 and over Friday morning.
The extension will give the FDA sufficient time to look into the drug for the treatment of patients with symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (oHCM).
Monoclonal antibodies have proven to be an important therapeutic option in the ongoing battle against COVID-19.
Merck’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab) keeps expanding the indications for which it’s approved. The company announced today that the FDA had approved the anti-PD-1 therapy for adjuvant treatment of renal cell carcinoma.
The FDA and CDC will soon decide on Pfizer-BioNTech’s request for an Emergency Use Authorization for the booster shot for their COVID-19 vaccine.