Trials of a vaccine and new drug raise hope of beating COVID-19

20 July 2020 - The latest tests with Oxford University’s vaccine, and interferon beta, look promising. ...

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Many drug companies working on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments are lobbying harder than usual

20 July 2020 - Pharmaceutical companies racing to develop coronavirus treatments and vaccines have upped their lobbying presence in the ...

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Gene therapy shows promise for haemophilia, but could be most expensive U.S. drug ever

20 June 2020 - Jack Grehan, who was born with hemophilia, used to inject himself every couple of days with ...

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Osmotica Pharmaceutical announces FDA user fee goal date of 29 December 2020 for arbaclofen extended release tablets

20 July 2020 - Osmotica Pharmaceuticals, through its subsidiary Osmotica Pharmaceutical US, announced today that the U.S. FDA considers the Company’s ...

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Acadia Pharmaceuticals announces U.S. FDA accepted for filing the supplemental new drug application for Nuplazid (pimavanserin) for the treatment of hallucinations and delusions associated with dementia-related psychosis

20 July 2020 - If approved, Nuplazid would be the first and only treatment indicated for dementia-related psychosis. ...

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Rare disease drove two women on a mission to change FDA drug review process

19 July 2020 - Melissa Goetz and Lindsey Sutton are campaigning to improve the US drug review process for rare diseases. ...

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Orphazyme completes rolling submission of new drug application to U.S. FDA for arimoclomol for Niemann-Pick disease type C

20 July 2020 - Company expects to submit marketing authorisation application for arimoclomol for Niemann-Pick disease type C to European Medicines Agency ...

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Why biosimilar approval applications break down

17 July 2020 - Investigators found that process complexities have created numerous difficulties for biosimilar developers in regulatory filings, but ...

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FDA grants fast track designation for DB102 in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma

17 July 2020 - Denovo Biopharma today announced that the U.S. FDA has granted fast track designation for DB102 (enzastaurin) being ...

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Farxiga granted fast track designation in the US for heart failure following acute myocardial infarction leveraging an innovative registry-based trial design

16 July 2020 - Phase III DAPA-MI trial will evaluate Farxiga as a treatment to reduce mortality and the risk of ...

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Hanmi’s fatty liver drug won FDA’s fast track designation

16 July 2020 - Hanmi Pharmaceutical said Thursday that the U.S. FDA has granted fast-track designation to its LAPSTriple Agonist ...

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Deep dive into big pharma AI productivity: one study shaking the pharmaceutical industry

15 July 2020 - The pharmaceutical business is perhaps the only industry on the planet, where to get the product from ...

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FDA grants priority review to Merck’s new drug application for vericiguat

16 July 2020 - Application based on first contemporary outcomes study focused exclusively on chronic heart failure patient population following a ...

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Knopp Biosciences receives rare paediatric disease designation for Kv7 activator KB-3061 for treatment of KCNQ2 epileptic encephalopathy

15 July 2020 - Knopp Biosciences announced today that it has received rare paediatric disease designation from the U.S. FDA ...

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Improving clinical trial enrollment — In the COVID-19 era and beyond

15 July 2020 - More than 3 million people in the United States are known to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2.  ...

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