President Biden still hasn’t appointed a permanent FDA commissioner. That has big implications for upcoming drug approvals.

25 May 2021 - Within the next few weeks, the FDA is set to make an extraordinary decision: whether or not ...

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TherapeuticsMD announces submission of low dose Bijuva 0.5 mg/100 mg supplemental new drug application to FDA

25 May 2021 - TherapeuticsMD announced today that the Company submitted a supplemental new drug application for BIJUVA (oestradiol and ...

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TG Therapeutics announces FDA acceptance of biologics license application for ublituximab in combination with Ukoniq (umbralisib) as a treatment for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma

25 May 2021 - Prescription Drug User Fee Act goal date of 25 March 2022. ...

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Scholar Rock receives fast track designation from the U.S. FDA for apitegromab for the treatment of patients with spinal muscular atrophy

24 May 2021 - Builds on Priority Medicines (PRIME) designation recently granted by the EMA recognising the unmet medical needs of ...

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Verastem Oncology receives breakthrough therapy designation for VS-6766 with defactinib in recurrent low grade serous ovarian cancer

24 May 2021 - Results of early trial demonstrate 70% overall response rate in patients with KRAS mutant tumours, 44% ...

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Akeso's penpulimab monoclonal antibody submitted BLA in the United States

24 May 2021 - First Chinese PD-1 drug being BLA reviewed by the FDA under real-time oncology review. ...

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Boehringer Ingelheim's investigational treatment for cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia receives FDA breakthrough therapy designation

24 May 2021 - BI 425809, a novel glycine transporter-1 (GlyT1) inhibitor to be studied in first of its kind Phase ...

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Adjusting for covariates in randomised clinical trials for drugs and biological products

20 May 2021 - This guidance represents FDA’s current thinking on adjusting for covariates in the statistical analysis of randomised clinical ...

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FDA grants accelerated approval to amivantamab-vmjw for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer

21 May 2021 - Today, the FDA granted accelerated approval to amivantamab-vmjw (Rybrevant, Janssen), a bispecific antibody directed against epidermal ...

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U.S. FDA grants priority review of maribavir for the treatment of post-transplant recipients with cytomegalovirus infection in those resistant and/or refractory to prior anti-CMV treatment

21 May 2021 - New drug application based on Phase 3 trial of maribavir which met its primary outcome of superiority ...

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Omeros announces extension of FDA review period for narsoplimab in HSCT-TMA

20 May 2021 - PDUFA date is 17 October 2021. ...

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FDA approves nivolumab for resected oesophageal or GEJ cancer

20 May 2021 - Today the FDA approved nivolumab (Opdivo, Bristol-Myers Squibb) for patients with completely resected oesophageal or gastro-oesophageal ...

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FDA authorises longer time for refrigerator storage of thawed Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine prior to dilution, making vaccine more widely available

19 May 2021 - Based on a review of recent data submitted by Pfizer today, the U.S. FDA is authorising undiluted, ...

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Leading real world data and analytics organisations form industry coalition to advance policies to support regulatory use of real world evidence

19 May 2021 - RWE Alliance Launched by Aetion, Flatiron Health, IQVIA, Syapse, and Tempus. ...

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BioXcel Therapeutics announces FDA acceptance for filing of NDA for BXCL501 for the acute treatment of agitation associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders I and II

19 May 2021 - FDA sets PDUFA action date for 5 January 2022. ...

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