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The FDA issued a rare Refusal-to-File letter to Moderna over its mRNA-based influenza vaccine application, in an unusual move that sent the biotech’s shares tumbling.
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The Senate failed to pass a massive spending bill on Thursday—which includes the rare pediatric PRV program but also funding for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s large-scale crackdown in Minnesota and other states.
Some 200 rare disease therapies are at risk of losing eligibility for a pediatric priority review voucher, a recent analysis by the Rare Disease Company Coalition shows. That could mean $4 billion in missed revenue for already cash-strapped biotechs.
Together with robust data-driven modeling, rethinking regulation and data use could push forward a notoriously challenging field.
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On Friday, the FDA approved Apellis Pharmaceuticals’ Syfovre (pegcetacoplan) as the first treatment for geographic atrophy (GA), a leading cause of blindness.
Takeda’s vedolizumab met its primary endpoint in the Phase III GRAPHITE study, significantly improving event-free survival in patients with acute graft-versus-host disease.
The FDA granted accelerated approval Friday to Travere Therapeutics’ sparsentan, now to be marketed as Filspari, to reduce the burden of proteinuria in adults with primary IgA nephropathy.
The FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 8-5 that two single-arm trials would be “sufficient to characterize the benefits and risks” of Jemperli in locally advanced rectal cancer.
The FDA placed 4D Molecular Therapeutics’ gene therapy program, 4D-310, on clinical hold, the company announced Thursday.
Wednesday, the FDA approved GSK’s daprodustat, now to be marketed as Jesduvroq, for the treatment of anemia due to chronic kidney disease in adult patients.
As the 118th Congress kicks into gear, biopharma industry observers speculate that 2023 may be a challenging year.
The FDA granted Eli Lilly’s Jaypirca accelerated approval for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma.
The FDA approved Merck’s Keytruda for the treatment of stage IB, II or IIIA non-small cell lung cancer after resection or platinum-based chemotherapy.
The FDA’s approval of Biogen and Eisai’s Leqembi and subsequent decision not to approve Eli Lilly’s donanemab have sparked debate anew about the anti-amyloid theory in Alzheimer’s.