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Disc Medicine’s leadership tried to express optimism that its rare disease therapy bitopertin can be approved based on a Phase 3 trial set to begin shortly. However, analysts are worried that the protocol was developed with former FDA leaders.
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The FDA’s refusal to review Moderna’s mRNA-based flu vaccine is “part of a disturbing pattern” of moving regulatory goalposts, according to Clay Alspach, executive director of the Alliance for mRNA Medicines. Meanwhile, streamlined communications with regulators in other countries pave the way for rapid uptake of novel modalities.
The current state of political affairs in the U.S. does not bode well for the direction of that turn. The country is at real risk of losing its long-held lead in biotech innovation.
The FDA’s refusal to review Moderna’s mRNA-based flu vaccine is part of a larger communications crisis unfolding at the agency over the past nine months that has also ensnarled Sarepta, Capricor, uniQure and many more.
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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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After a brief slump, interest in ADCs is at an all-time high, highlighted by a handful of recent multi-million- and billion-dollar acquisitions.
The FDA’s new guidance on decentralized clinical trials clarifies how investigators and trial sponsors can use digital health technologies and involve primary healthcare practitioners.
As competition eats away at profits for the wet age-related macular degeneration drug, Regeneron is diversifying its portfolio and pumping more money into research and development.
The companies said in first-quarter earnings calls that they want to restructure R&D, cut costs and shift away from high-risk drug development to focus areas.
The FDA’s agenda includes an advisory committee meeting for Sarepta’s delandistrogene moxeparvovec, which, if approved, would become the first gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
During a first-quarter earnings call, Novo revealed its hemophilia candidate had been blocked by the FDA, and that the company is reducing the U.S. supply of lower doses of weight-loss drug Wegovy.
Despite multiple therapeutics approved to treat localized symptoms, there are currently no systemic therapies on the market for Sjogren’s syndrome.
As the COVID-19 market dries up, Moderna looks to FDA approval of its other vaccines including a 2024 commercial launch of its investigational RSV vaccine for older adults.
While donanemab showed impressive results in Phase III TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2, concerns regarding its safety remain compared with Biogen’s and Eisai’s Leqembi.
Data from Phase III confirmatory MIRASOL trial show antibody-drug conjugate boosts survival in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, setting the stage for full approval by the FDA.