Fierce Pharma

OCTOBER 18, 2024

After a prior rejection, Astellas can head into the weekend celebrating a class-first FDA approval for its new gastric cancer med Vyloy. Astellas' Vyloy won an FDA approval to treat gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma patients whose tumors are CLDN18.2

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The T-cell therapy treatment class, which has transformed the treatment of certain blood cancers, has now reached the solid tumor field thanks to an FDA approval for a first-of-its-kind immunothera | The T-cell therapy treatment class, which has transformed the treatment of certain blood cancers, has now reached the solid tumor field thanks to an FDA (..)

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Fierce Pharma

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Amgen’s request to gain full approval of Lumakras in non-small cell lung cancer has been rejected by the FDA. Amgen’s request to gain full approval of Lumakras in non-small cell lung cancer has been rejected by the FDA. The California biopharma will now have to conduct an additional confirmatory trial to gain the coveted FDA nod.

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Fierce Pharma

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In a blow to CAR-T therapies, the FDA is investigating a “serious risk” of patients developing new cancers after treatment with these highly efficacious oncology drugs. | In a blow to CAR-T therapies, the FDA is investigating a “serious risk” of patients developing new cancers after treatment with these highly efficacious oncology drugs.

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Fierce Pharma

MAY 31, 2024

With the FDA nod, Moderna's RSV vaccine becomes the company's second product to secure the FDA's backing.

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Fierce Pharma

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The FDA issued its first stamp of approval for a cell or gene therapy back in 2017 to Novartis' Kymriah. | The gene therapy has already been approved to treat AADC deficiency in Europe and the U.K., among other countries, where it's branded as Upstaza.

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Fierce Pharma

AUGUST 7, 2024

The first horse carrying Novartis’ immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) troika has crossed the FDA finish line. | The first horse carrying Novartis’ immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) troika has crossed the FDA finish line.

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Fierce Pharma

JUNE 26, 2024

In the second setback for the HER3 field in days, the FDA has rejected Daiichi Sankyo’s Merck & Co.-partnered In the second setback for the HER3 field in days, the FDA has rejected Daiichi Sankyo’s Merck & Co.-partnered partnered antibody drug conjugate (ADC) patritumab deruxtecan. |

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Fierce Pharma

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Despite recent concerns from the FDA about potential off-label use and antimicrobial resistance, Dublin-based Iterum Therapeutics has scored a green light for its oral antibiotic sulopenem. The FDA nod marks the second approval this year for a uUTI medicine after two decades of stagnation in the field.

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Fierce Pharma

OCTOBER 8, 2024

With an estimated 2 million people in the United States taking copycat vers | A compounding industry group has sued the FDA, claiming its action to remove Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro and Zepbound from its drug shortage list is a “reckless and arbitrary decision—lacking any semblance of lawful process.”

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Fierce Pharma

MARCH 8, 2024

Novo Nordisk’s fast-growing weight loss med Wegovy just added a new cardiovascular FDA approval to its label, likely enabling the med's superstar status to reach new levels. |

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Fierce Pharma

MAY 8, 2024

In a letter to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, M.D., Amid a U.S. | the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability chairman argued that China’s influence over global pharmaceutical supply chains constitutes an act of economic warfare against the United States.

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Fierce Pharma

JUNE 17, 2024

The FDA has approved the world’s first pneumococcal disease vaccine designed for adults, signing off on Merck’s Capvaxive (formerly V116) and positioning it to become the primary shot used by senio | The FDA has approved the world’s first pneumococcal disease vaccine designed for adults, signing off on Merck’s Capvaxive (formerly V116) and positioning (..)

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Fierce Pharma

APRIL 26, 2024

Ten years after dipping its toes into the gene therapy pool in a licensing deal with Spark Therapeutics, Pfizer has gained FDA approval for the acquired treatment. | Ten years after dipping its toe into the gene therapy pool in a licensing deal with Spark Therapeutics, Pfizer has gained an FDA approval for the acquired treatment.

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Fierce Pharma

MAY 30, 2024

In the years since gaining an initial FDA approval for Breyanzi, Bristol Myers Squibb has worked hard to expand the reach of its cell therapy. | In the years since gaining an initial FDA approval for Breyanzi, Bristol Myers Squibb has worked hard to expand the reach of its cell therapy.

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Fierce Pharma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Less than a year after snagging its first FDA approval in psoriasis, UCB’s blockbuster hopeful Bimzelx has picked up three more indications to add to its growing resume of inflammatory disease trea | Along with psoriasis, the biologic is now FDA approved to treat psoriatic arthritis, non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis and ankylosing spondylitis. (..)

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Fierce Pharma

AUGUST 2, 2024

Adaptimmune has won accelerated FDA approval | Adaptimmune has won accelerated FDA approval for Tecelra (afami-cel), a treatment for metastatic or unresectable synovial sarcoma which becomes the first engineered cell therapy for a solid tumor and the first new treatment in the indication in more than a decade.

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Fierce Pharma

APRIL 1, 2024

What analysts viewed as a potential “inflection point” for Eisai and Biogen’s slow-footed Leqembi is facing a delay with the FDA. What analysts viewed as a potential “inflection point” for Eisai and Biogen’s slow-footed Leqembi is facing a delay with the FDA.

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Fierce Pharma

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

An FDA approval has officially lifted the curtain on a blockbuster market showdown between Novartis and Eli Lilly in early breast cancer. | An FDA approval has officially lifted the curtain on a blockbuster market showdown between Novartis' Kisqali and Eli Lilly's Verzenio in early breast cancer.

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Fierce Pharma

DECEMBER 5, 2024

AstraZeneca has picked off another label expansion for cancer blockbuster Imfinzi as the FDA has blessed it for limited-stage small cell lung cancer.

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Fierce Pharma

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

With the nod, BridgeBio will challenge Pfizer’s powerhouse Vyndaqel franchise, which dominates the indication.

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Fierce Pharma

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The FDA had originally pushed its decision back by three months after a November manufacturing-related delay. Merus’ week keeps getting better. |

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Fierce Pharma

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Fabre-Kramer Pharmaceuticals' major depressive disorder (MDD) drug gepirone has been rejected by the FDA not once, not twice, but three times since the turn of the millennium. Fabre-Kramer's Exxua suffered three prior FDA rejections before scoring an FDA approval for major depressive disorder last week.

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Fierce Pharma

AUGUST 13, 2024

When the FDA approved Amgen’s Imdelltra in May, the T-cell engager was hailed as a breakthrough for the treatment of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and as the first DLL3-targeting therapy of potenti | In granting an accelerated approval to Amgen's first-in-class DLL3 bispecific Imdelltra, the FDA had to work through a “large number” of missing (..)

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Fierce Pharma

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Six months after scoring FDA approval for hemophilia B gene therapy Beqvez, Pf | For the second time in six months, the FDA approved a Pfizer treatment for hemophilia. On Friday the U.S. regulator signed off on Hympavzi, an anti-tissue factor pathway inhibitor for patients age 12 and older with hemophilia A or B.

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Fierce Pharma

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Alongside a historic approval for the first therapy utilizing the Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology, the FDA has cleared a rival gene replacement therapy, also for sickle cell | Alongside a historic approval for the first therapy utilizing the Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology, the FDA has cleared a rival (..)

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Fierce Pharma

JUNE 6, 2024

When the FDA comes knocking at your drug manufacturing facility, it’s best to play along. |

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Fierce Pharma

APRIL 30, 2024

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is not done with its crackdown on what it views as improper listing of patents with the FDA. | FTC is not done with its crackdown on what it views as improper listing of patents in the FDA Orange Book.

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Fierce Pharma

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In 2001, a Time Magazine cover story touted Novartis’ targeted leukemia treatment Gleevec (imatinib) as a new kind of “am | Shorla Oncology has scored an FDA approval for its strawberry-flavored drink version of Novartis' cancer drug Gleevec. Dubbed Imkeldi, it becomes the first oral liquid form of imatinib.

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Fierce Pharma

AUGUST 23, 2024

The FDA has authorized the use of | The FDA has authorized the use of new vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna which have been designed to defend against the Omicron KP.2 2 variant of SARS-CoV-2. The nod comes as word of a new omicron variant, KP.3.1.1, is beginning to eclipse KP.2

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Eohilia, an oral suspension formulation of the corticosteroid budesonide, has surprisingly won over the FDA even after the drug’s developer, Takeda, had at one point abandoned the program following | Takeda's Eohilia has surprisingly won over the FDA even after the company had at one point abandoned the program following an FDA rejection.

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The FDA has blessed Roche and Novartis’ Xolair as the first medicine to reduce allergic reactions that can occur with accidental exposure to certain foods. People with food allergies finally have a drug that can help prevent severe outcomes—and it’s a drug that’s been on the market for two decades.

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Fierce Pharma

AUGUST 12, 2024

After two delays, the FDA has finally signed off on Ascendis Pharma's hormone replacement therapy Yorvipath, also known as TransCon PTH, which is the first approved product for hypoparathyroidism in adults in the U.S. Ascendis Pharma should be well prepared for the U.S.

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Fierce Pharma

MAY 16, 2024

China-made PD-1 inhibitors just can’t get a clean pass through the FDA. | China-made PD-1 inhibitors continue to struggle at the FDA. This week, the U.S. agency rejected Elevar Therapeutics and Jiangsu Hengrui Pharma's PD-1 combination in liver cancer.

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Fierce Pharma

MAY 14, 2024

It’s been a long wait for Ascendis Pharma to score FDA approval for its hormone replacement therapy TransCon PTH (palopegteriparatide). It’s been a long wait for Ascendis Pharma to score FDA approval for its hormone replacement therapy TransCon PTH (palopegteriparatide).

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Fierce Pharma

JANUARY 22, 2024

As many have feared, the FDA’s investigation into secondary T-cell cancers following treatment with existing CAR-T therapies is poised to lead to a classwide black box warning. |

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Fierce Pharma

MARCH 25, 2024

Nearly five years after an FDA approval for Soliris in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD), AstraZeneca’s follow-on C5 drug Ultomiris has entered the rare neurological disease, as well.<

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