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Approved for patients with low- to intermediate-risk myelodysplastic syndromes, Geron’s Rytelo is the first telomerase inhibitor to hit the market and the company’s first approved drug after 34 years in business.
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Following FDA rejections, Regeneron and Scholar Rock are turning to other facilities to clear regulatory logjams created by quality problems at an ex-Catalent facility in Indiana. Novo Nordisk, meanwhile, has been tight-lipped about whether its own FDA applications have been affected.
As big pharmas including Takeda and Novo Nordisk flee the cell therapy space and smaller biotechs shutter their operations, these players are sticking around to take the modality as far as it can go.
This year has seen the approval of several first-in-class therapies for HAE, but in a fragmented space, experts question whether they will be enough to net their developers a significant share of the entrenched market.
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Moderna, Inc. announced that it has received approval from the US FDA for its amendment to the emergency use authorization to allow for a second booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine at the 50 µg dose level in adults 50 years of age and older who have received an initial booster of any of the authorized or approved COVID-19 vaccines and adults 18 years of age and older with certain kinds of immunocompromise.
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The Japanese pharma is voluntarily withdrawing its lung cancer drug mobocertinib, marketed as Exkivity, from U.S. and global markets after it missed the mark in a Phase III confirmatory trial.
On Monday, Syndax Pharmaceuticals announced that its menin inhibitor revumenib met the goal in a pivotal leukemia study and stopped the trial early. Their stock price still dropped on the news.
Eli Lilly on Tuesday continued its buying spree with a $1.4 billion acquisition of the radiopharma company’s pipeline of clinical and preclinical radioligand therapies.
The Swiss pharma will seek accelerated approval for iptacopan in IgA nephropathy next year after the complement blocker demonstrated promising efficacy in the Phase III APPLAUSE-IgAN study.
Shares of the biotech startup jumped as much as 70% on Friday after the company reported promising early-stage results for a four-week trial that included only 24 patients.
Eli Lilly’s Biologic License Application for its monoclonal antibody lebrikizumab was denied by the regulator after issues were found at a third-party contract manufacturing organization.
Judge Michael Newman of the Southern District of Ohio issued a ruling Friday denying the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s request for a preliminary injunction against the Inflation Reduction Act provisions.
Despite a sharp downturn in initial public offering activity, New York-based gene therapy company Lexeo Therapeutics and French biotech Abivax are seeking funding for their lead candidate programs.
An FDA advisory committee this week voted overwhelmingly against BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics’ amyotrophic lateral sclerosis treatment. However, other potential therapies offer hope for ALS patients.
Thursday’s approval comes after the FDA pushed back the target action dates for Amicus’ Biologics License Application in May, allowing the regulator more time to review the company’s submitted data.