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On the FDA’s docket this month are two decisions pushed back from 2025, including one for a rare form of obesity and another for dry eye disease.
The CDC’s changes threaten to cut vaccine sales for makers including Pfizer, Moderna, Merck and more, but a legal expert suspects affected manufacturers will stay on the sidelines rather than back a push to declare the revised schedule unlawful.
This week’s Capitol Hill meetings come on the heels of rejections of ultra-rare disease drugs developed by Biohaven and Saol Therapeutics. Physicians and patient groups implored the FDA to expedite these treatments.
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary presented a new idea to staff this week: bonus payments for employees that complete regulatory review processes faster than expected.
Hernexeos is the second drug to secure an FDA approval under the agency’s priority voucher scheme, following in the footsteps of USAntibiotics’ Augmentin XR, which was granted the ticket in December 2025.
Aside from creating a toxic work environment, CBER Director Vinay Prasad has also been accused of berating his staff and retaliating against reviewers who questioned his decisions.
Without naming a specific product, Commissioner Marty Makary referred to an investigational therapy, delivered surgically into the brain, that the FDA was “pressured” to approve even after finding no clinical benefit to patients.
Analysts are cautiously optimistic about an IPO rebound for biopharma. BioSpace is keeping track of companies that seek to trade on the public markets this year.
The BioSpace team hit the ground running at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference earlier this month to bring you the news from the streets of San Francisco.
After a rocky 2025, Sarepta Therapeutics’ executives admit they have work to do to bring patients back into the fold as sales of Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy Elevidys continue to decline.
Last week, the FDA made its one pivotal trial policy official, sparking myriad questions from industry leaders, including around specific evidence required for the single study and why it hasn’t been implemented across all therapeutic areas before now.
In this episode of Denatured, you’ll be listening to Indu Navar, CEO and founder of EverythingALS and Dr. Olga Uspenskaya, chief medical officer at VectorY Therapeutics. We’ll be speaking about patient-pharma collaborations accelerating trials and hope, advances in ALS biology understanding and biomarker-driven endpoints.
PRESS RELEASES
Received FDA approval to expand fully implanted Acclaim® Cochlear Implant Pivotal Clinical Trial to final stage Strengthened balance sheet by extinguishing $32 million in debt Subsequent to year-end, closed on transformational capital raise led by established institutional healthcare investors and completed enrollment of Pivotal Clinical Trial for first-of-its-kind fully implanted cochlear implant
Prestigious Late-Breaking Research Session Positions PH-762 as a Promising New PD-1 Directed Immunotherapy Candidate on March 28, 2026 at 3 PM (MDT)
• Human Organoid Data Supports the Therapeutic Rationale for INM-901 Program Ahead of Human Clinical Trials • Consistent Anti-Inflammatory Effects Demonstrate Translation from Animal Models to Three-Dimensional Human Brain Tissue Systems
This novel whole-body insulin-sensitizing approach is designed to address insulin resistance independent of weight loss