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While the FDA did not announce the recipient names of the Commissioner’s National Priority Vouchers, the agency’s descriptions of the awarded products match those in development at Compass Pathways, Transcend Therapeutics and Usona Institute.
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After Replimune’s advanced melanoma drug was rejected for a second time, CEO Sushil Patel slammed the FDA for failing to exercise regulatory flexibility, while other experts bemoaned the agency’s lack of consistency. With new safety guidelines for gene editing therapies, the FDA has taken a first step toward fixing both problems.
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.
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Here’s a look at the two drugs that had dates this week but were approved early and are now on the market.
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The FDA gave tentative approval for the drug in 2018, but the holdup was over patent issues.
Audenz is the first-ever adjuvanted, cell-based influenza vaccine designed to protect against influenza A (H5N1) in the event of a pandemic.
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Although January was a fairly slow month for PDUFA dates for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, February has a stronger schedule.
The approval was based on two randomized open-label clinical trials that evaluated the combination of empagliflozin, linagliptin and metformin and their individual components in healthy adults.
Dificid is a macrolide antibiotic that was previously approved for CDAD in adults.
Robert Bazemore, president and chief executive officer of Epizyme, called the accelerated approval of Tezverik “a landmark event” for people with epithelioid sarcoma, a soft-tissue cancer.