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Acadia Pharma’s Catherine Owen Adams has formed a group of small- to mid-cap biotechs to advocate against a ‘peanut butter blanket’ approach to drug pricing for small companies.
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Policy initiatives have come fast and furious at the FDA this year. While guidances on rare diseases and vaccines have consumed most of the ink, policy shifts aimed at improving FDA efficiencies and reshoring U.S. manufacturing also got some attention. Here, BioSpace rounds up more than a dozen initiatives relevant to the biopharma industry.
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.
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Biogen has withdrawn its Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for European approval of Aduhelm after regulators hinted data was not strong enough to support potential approval.
As Omicron dominates the COVID-19 landscape, scientists are urging the FDA to reconsider how the agency defines immune responses.
The WHO has indicated support for Pfizer’s Paxlovid and reversing a previous decision on using antiviral remdesivir, now recommending it in cases of mild to moderate COVID-19.
Toxicities and concerning patient survival data sparked a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committee to recommend shutting the door on single-arm clinical studies of PI3K inhibitors.
The COVID-19 pandemic will end one day and, when it does, some biopharma companies will need to revert to a more normal way of working with others.
Servier is poised to go to market soon after the Phase III trial of its proposed drug for leukemia closed with positive results.
British employees of pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have voted to strike against the company’s recent pay raise. The employees are backed by British labor union Unite.
The U.S. FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee is holding a meeting on April 21, 2022, to discuss safety findings across the entire class of PI3K inhibitors for hematological cancers.
Arcturus Therapeutics announced positive Phase III trial results for its mRNA vaccine candidate, ARCT-154, intended to prevent COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
AbbVie, Novartis, Pfizer and other biopharma companies are ramping up support to Ukraine in the face of the continuing Russian invasion.