Regulatory
Acadia Pharmaceuticals announced the approval of Daybue (trofinetide) as the first and only drug to treat Rett Syndrome, a rare, neurodegenerative disorder affecting primarily girls.
An independent panel of advisers voted to approve Genentech’s Polivy after internal FDA staff raised concerns regarding the efficacy and risk-benefit profile as a first-line treatment for large B-cell lymphoma.
The FDA set a decision date of July 6, 2023 for Eisai and Biogen’s recently approved Alzheimer’s drug, Leqembi, Eisai announced Monday.
With the results from the CLEAR outcomes study, Esperion is poised for a major inflection in sales and is targeting blockbuster status, said CEO Sheldon Koenig on an investor call Monday.
The FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee will meet March 9 to discuss Roche’s sBLA for Polivy in first-line DLBCL, while Acadia awaits potential approval of the first therapy for Rett Syndrome.
In 2022, Elon Musk’s Neuralink tried – and failed – to secure permission from the FDA to run a human trial of its implantable brain-computer interface, according to a report published Thursday.
Citing lack of efficacy evidence, the FDA rejected Cytokinetics’ heart failure hopeful omecamtiv mecarbil in a decision announced Tuesday evening.
Billy Dunn, director of the FDA’s Office of Neuroscience, is stepping down from his post to “explore other opportunities,” according to an internal FDA e-mail.
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.
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