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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.
FDA
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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FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration greenlit Karyopharm Therapeutics’ Xpovio (selinexor) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) under accelerated approval.
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Wrapping up June and ahead of the July 4 holiday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a busy two-week period coming up for drug approvals. Here’s a look.
FDA
Crysvita is a drug developed by Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical and Tokyo-based Kyowa Kirin Co. Ltd., a specialty pharmaceutical company.
FDA
The FDA approved a supplemental New Drug Application for Tazverik (tazemetostat) for the treatment of two distinct follicular lymphoma (FL) indications.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a ruling that the Trump administration does not have the legal authority to mandate that drug companies disclose the list price of medications in television advertisements.
FDA
This is the second such biomarker-specific approval for Keytruda. The first biomarker-specific approval came in 2017.
FDA
Novartis is the first company to the finish line with an approved treatment for Adult-Onset Still’s Disease (AOSD), a rare autoinflammatory disease of unknown origin.