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The FDA is signaling change, but actual success depends on more than simply bringing in a new leader at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research; it requires accountability, transparency and consistent action.
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BioSpace looks back at 2025 and where the FDA is going in 2026.
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.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration greenlit Karyopharm Therapeutics’ Xpovio (selinexor) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) under accelerated approval.
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The FDA approved a supplemental New Drug Application for Tazverik (tazemetostat) for the treatment of two distinct follicular lymphoma (FL) indications.
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This is the second such biomarker-specific approval for Keytruda. The first biomarker-specific approval came in 2017.
Novartis is the first company to the finish line with an approved treatment for Adult-Onset Still’s Disease (AOSD), a rare autoinflammatory disease of unknown origin.
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The game was reviewed through the agency’s de novo pathway and as a result, creates a new class of digital therapeutics.
The approval was based on monotherapy clinical data from a trial in 105 adults with SCLC whose disease progressed after platinum-based chemotherapy.