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After a tumultuous year, experts call for stability while anticipating the first fruits of policies intended to expedite approvals for rare disease drugs.
The FDA’s announcement that it will phase out in vivo testing requirements for monoclonal antibodies marks a seismic shift. Here’s how industry can adapt.
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Policy initiatives have come fast and furious at the FDA this year. While guidances on rare diseases and vaccines have consumed most of the ink, policy shifts aimed at improving FDA efficiencies and reshoring U.S. manufacturing also got some attention. Here, BioSpace rounds up more than a dozen initiatives relevant to the biopharma industry.
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A number of new medications stand a shot at early regulatory approval thanks to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s priority review program.
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The FDA gave tentative approval for the drug in 2018, but the holdup was over patent issues.
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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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For the millions of people suffering from an allergy to peanuts, there is a new, first-of-its-kind treatment available. On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Aimmune Therapeutics’ oral immunotherapy AR101.
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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.
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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.
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Dificid is a macrolide antibiotic that was previously approved for CDAD in adults.
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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.
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Tuesday afternoon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Tepezza (teprotumumab-trbw) as the first treatment for this condition.
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AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) and tremelimumab were granted Orphan Drug designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a possible treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma.