Regulatory

The FDA is expected to cap off February with a trio of verdicts, including one for a heart failure treatment and another potential first approval for a rare, neurodegenerative disease.
The FDA accepted the BLA for and granted Pfizer’s maternal RSV vaccine candidate priority review.
Akebia Therapeutics announced another delay Tuesday in a series of setbacks for vadadustat, being developed to treat anemia linked to chronic kidney disease.
If Leqembi is granted priority review from the agency, full approval could come as soon as July, Ivan Cheung, chairman and CEO, Eisai Inc., told CNBC Thursday.
Taxpayer-funded research in biosciences will no longer sit behind paywalls. Instead, all of this data will be publicly available for no cost.
The FDA has rejected Soligenix’s NDA for HyBryte (synthetic hypericin), a therapeutic developed to treat early-stage cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
The FDA issued complete response letters to Phathom Pharmaceuticals, flagging the presence of N-nitroso-vonoprazan (NVP) impurities in its Helicobacter pylori drug products.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is marching toward the launch of exa-cel with a lot of confidence, per its full-year 2022 presentation.
FDA
The FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 8-5 that two single-arm trials would be “sufficient to characterize the benefits and risks” of Jemperli in locally advanced rectal cancer.
GSK has dropped two assets, an investigational celiac disease therapeutic and a Staphylococcus aureus vaccine hopeful, from its pipeline.
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