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The US dramatically altered its recommendations for a series of vaccines, which drive billion-dollar earnings for giants like Merck and Pfizer.
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With five CDER leaders in one year and regulatory proposals coming “by fiat,” the FDA is only making it more difficult to bring therapies to patients.
The record-setting government shutdown was just the latest blow to the U.S. biopharma industry. When science funding becomes a casualty of political gridlock, we lose valuable talent, erode public trust and jeopardize our position as a global leader in innovation.
Representatives from companies such as Sanofi and Forge Biologics point to the potential for PreCheck to drive activation of idle production capacity and help companies that are already building plants.
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The FDA has lifted its clinical hold on Beam Therapeutics’ BEAM-201 and cleared the way for an Investigational New Drug Application, the company announced Friday.
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals made the call Friday to slash three-fourths of its workforce on the heels of a Complete Response Letter from the FDA.
The FDA has accepted Sarepta’s BLA for the accelerated approval of SRP-9001, an investigational gene therapy for DMD. Roche is responsible for commercialization outside the U.S.
BioMarin Pharmaceutical announced the FDA no longer plans to hold an advisory committee meeting to review its BLA for Roctavian an AAV gene therapy for adults with severe hemophilia A.
The FDA granted argenx Priority Review status for the company’s BLA for SC efgartigimod for generalized myasthenia gravis.
Following a request from the FDA, GSK is withdrawing its multiple myeloma drug Blenrep from the U.S. market while continuing to push other combination trial programs.
The FDA has a number of PDUFA dates for the remainder of November for Spectrum, ImmunoGen, Scynexis and Y-mAbs.
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will serve 11 years in prison on four counts of fraud, according to her sentencing by a federal judge in a California courtroom on Friday afternoon.
Large pharmaceutical companies are making plans to comply with sustainability and carbon net zero targets. Hear from AstraZeneca and Merck KGaA’s MilliporeSigma about their strategies.
Iovance Biotherapeutics announced the FDA’s Biologics License Application for lifileucel will likely be completed in Q1 of 2023, a short delay after the agency requested additional data.