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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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Merck’s Welireg won FDA approval for adult patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease who require therapy for associated RCC, central nervous system, and hemangioblastomas.
The U.S. FDA had a very packed calendar for this week, but almost everything on it was under a Priority Review pathway.
Palovarotene is being developed for the prevention of heterotropic ossification, which is new bone formation in people with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive.
The amended EUA is aimed at patients who have undergone solid organ transplants or those diagnosed with conditions that have an “equivalent level of immunocompromised.”
This approval was based on the Phase III withdrawal study that showed clinically meaningful differences vs. placebo in change to the primary endpoint, Epworth Sleepiness Scale score.
The U.S. FDA greenlit the combination of Keytruda and Eisai’s Lemvima as a first-line treatment for adult patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.
Sanofi has announced that the U.S. FDA approved its new treatment for children one year of age or older diagnosed with late-onset Pompe disease.
Although August is a fairly busy month for PDUFA dates, there were only two on the U.S. FDA’s calendar for this week, and one of those has already been reported. Here’s a look.
Sierra will have access to AZD5153, a potent and selective BRD4 BET inhibitor, to initiate a study that combines the said component with momelotinib for treating patients with myelofibrosis.
Aprea faces another disappointment this week in the clinic. The FDA held up a yellow card, and the Boston-based biotech has placed a partial clinical hold on its myeloid malignancy program.