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Robert Kramer, former CEO of Emergent BioSolutions, allegedly earned more than $10.1 million by executing trades with information related to the company’s manufacturing operations that had yet to be made public.
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Only a handful of the top pharmas have signed Most Favored Nation drug pricing deals with the White House, while smaller biotechs continue to hang in limbo.
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.
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Applications include a nasal COVID-19 vaccine, an NSCLC drug, respiratory infection drug and a treatment for a chronic inflammation of the esophagus.
A critical vote is set to take place today amongst those on a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel in regard to the COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the first non-prescription, over-the-counter, at-home antigen test that can be used to identify infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, in people two years of age or older.
Novartis’ Entresto is well on its way to receiving approval as a treatment for heart failure patients following overwhelming support from a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee.
Novartis’ Iptacopan isn’t the only drug to receive Breakthrough Therapy designation this week. Several other experimental treatments were also awarded the designation.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals reported that it is pausing enrollment in two of its clinical trials for odronextamab for lymphoma. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) placed a partial clinical hold on the trials.
All eyes are turning to Moderna, which has a meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee on Thursday, December 17. The agency released the data application today.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for December 15, 2020.
As the year wraps up, there are still some PDUFA dates on the agency’s calendar. Read on for this week’s.
If the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not grant Emergency Use Authorization to the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the White House will demand the resignation of FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn.