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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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In a speech given at the Brookings Institution preceding the release of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Biosimilars Action Plan, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb unloaded on big pharma.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was busy during the first half of this year with more than 20 novel drug approvals. Of those approvals, one-third came in June.
Shares of Siga Technologies soared more than 11 percent late Friday after the company announced that its smallpox treatment Tpoxx was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
July can be a notoriously slow period for FDA activity, and this year is no different. There are only five PDUFA dates scheduled for the month, and the first one was a supplemental approval for Merck’s Keytruda. The PDUFA date was July 3, but it was approved June 13. At this point in the month there are only four more approvals on the docket, here are the remaining approvals scheduled for July.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is in the midst of readdressing cannabis following the regulatory approval of the first cannabinoid-based drug for the treatment of some epilepsy patients.
On June 11, 2018, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb released a complementary framework for gene therapies, noting that in the last 12 months the agency has approved three different gene therapy products. “This reflects the rapid advancements in this field,” Gottlieb stated.
On May 29, the FDA cleared T2 Biosystems’ T2Bacteria Panel for diagnosis of sepsis. In that sepsis is the third-leading cause of death in the U.S., this emphasizes the importance of work in this area.