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An unnamed FDA official also told reporters that it would be good for Moderna to “show some humility” and admit that it didn’t follow the regulator’s recommendations in testing its mRNA flu vaccine.
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Bristol Myers Squibb, GSK and Merck are contributing drug ingredients as part of their deals with the White House but are keeping many of the terms of their agreements private.
Some 200 rare disease therapies are at risk of losing eligibility for a pediatric priority review voucher, a recent analysis by the Rare Disease Company Coalition shows. That could mean $4 billion in missed revenue for already cash-strapped biotechs.
The FDA’s rare pediatric disease priority review voucher program missed reauthorization at the last minute in 2024; advocates have been fighting to get it back ever since.
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Zejula, GlaxoSmithKline’s once-daily PARP inhibitor, won regulatory approval as a monotherapy maintenance treatment for women with advanced ovarian cancer whose disease is responsive to first-line platinum-based chemotherapy, regardless of biomarker status.
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Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for April 27, 2020.
Gilead Sciences filed a lawsuit against the United States government alleging the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention violated a contract that governed an HIV research collaboration between the company and government agency.