European Pharmaceutical Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Following her presentation on age-related disease at BioFuture 2023, Executive Vice President of Drug Development for MyMD Pharmaceuticals ® , Jenna Brager, shares with EPR why the company’s next-generation tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha inhibitor has potential in inflammatory and autoimmune disorders.

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JULY 1, 2022

Blueprint Medicines has entered strategic financing partnerships for up to $1.25bn with life sciences-focused investors Sixth Street and Royalty Pharma. Ayvakit has received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to treat advanced systemic mastocytosis in adults.

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MAY 12, 2023

Innovative therapies for rare diseases The acquisition will help to drive the growth of CTI’s lead product, kinase inhibitor VONJO ® (pacritinib) “in treating myeloproliferative disease,” stated Dr Adam Craig, President, Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Medical Officer of CTI BioPharma.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first drug for desmoid tumours (desmoid fibromatosis), an oral gamma secretase inhibitor. The FDA’s approval of Ogsiveo is based on results from the Phase III DeFi clinical trial , which were published this year in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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APRIL 29, 2024

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy BEQVEZ (fidanacogene elaparvovec-dzkt) for certain adults with haemophilia B. BEQVEZ is currently being reviewed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Pfizer confirmed.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Swiss biotech company Stalicla has signed a licensing deal with Evgen Pharma for the latter’s lead asset, SFX-01, in neurodevelopmental disorders and schizophrenia. in milestone payments that include $5m upon receipt of the investigational new drug (IND) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is expected late next year.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Investigational New Drug (IND) application for Intellia Therapeutics’ in vivo CRISPR-based candidate NTLA-2001, has been cleared as a gene editing therapy for transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) in the US. This supports NTLA-2001’s potential as a single-administration therapeutic.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

MARCH 8, 2023

Ekaterina received her medical degree from St Petersburg Medical Academy in St Petersburg, Russia, and then moved to the US where she completed her Internal Medicine residency training. She worked in private practice, academic medicine and public health for more than 15 years in the greater New York area.

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JUNE 6, 2023

Gildeuretinol is the first and only medicine in clinical development to treat Stargardt disease by reducing vitamin A dimerization in the eye, without affecting normal vision. The therapy has also received orphan drug designation and breakthrough therapy designation from the US Food and Drug Administration.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Data from this Phase II supported US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval: a 98 percent response rate and an 83 percent complete response rate. Researchers from this first real-world study of the cell therapy explained that outcomes are comparable to the results of the CARTITUDE-1 trial.

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MAY 23, 2024

Last month, CARVYKTI ® (ciltacabtagene autoleucel; cilta-cel) was the first BCMA-targeted CAR-T cell therapy to be approved for second-line treatment of multiple myeloma by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Imran joined Oncology US Medical Affairs in 2018 as the Therapeutic Area Lead, Lymphoma and Myeloid Malignances.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

The European Commission has revoked the conditional marketing authorisation (MA) for Novartis’ sickle cell medicine crizanlizumab in the European Union (EU) and EEA. The decision follows a May recommendation from the European Medicine Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP).

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APRIL 3, 2023

Hyrimoz has been approved for use in all the indications covered by the reference medicine Humira, including plaque psoriasis, rheumatic diseases, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, uveitis and hidradenitis suppurativa. Its reference medicine, Humira, initially received approval with an adalimumab 50 mg/mL concentration.

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MAY 24, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever redosable gene therapy for the rare skin disease dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB). This can lead to extremely fragile skin that blisters and tears with minor friction or trauma. The “landmark approval” declared Krish S.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Three anti-hypertensive drugs combined in low doses into a single pill has been shown to be superior to standard care for lowering blood pressure in patients with uncontrolled hypertension. The oral treatment GMRx2 is biopharma George Medicines’ lead drug candidate.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The clinic will develop pre-clinical studies into early and late phase clinical trials to identify US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved advanced regenerative medicines. The Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute and the Smidt Heart Institute will lead the project.

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JUNE 13, 2024

Tell us about Ocugen’s lead programme, OCU400. In April 2024, Ocugen received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to initiate the Phase III liMeliGhT clinical trial for OCU400 for retinitis pigmentosa. In December 2023, the FDA granted OCU400 Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation.

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JUNE 21, 2023

AGEPHA Pharma has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for LODOCO (colchicine, 0.5 It can be used as a monotherapy or along with cholesterol-lowering medicines. We are dedicated to addressing heart disease, the leading cause of death, by ensuring all patients have access to LODOCO.”

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JULY 4, 2023

As drug development professionals know, global health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic provide the public with valuable insights into how clinical research and regulatory processes work. What are Antibody Drug Conjugates and Multispecific Antibody Therapeutics?

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AUGUST 26, 2024

The European Commission has granted the first approval for a medicine to treat acanthamoeba keratitis, an ultra-rare corneal infection that can lead to blindness. Akantior was granted Orphan Drug Designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat acanthamoeba keratitis.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has authorised Pfizer’s Litfulo (ritlecitinib) for treatment for severe alopecia areata in patients 12 years and older. A hard capsule medicine, Litfulo is recommended to be taken daily as one 50mg oral dose.

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JUNE 22, 2022

A new feature—a sensor that monitors changes in the heart rate for irregularities that can lead to strokes and heart failure—has just been approved by America’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Then there is the cost of generic drugs. Generic drugs versus branded is also a considerable expense.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Roche multiple sclerosis subcutaneous injection: late-breaking data “Updated results from OCARINA II further underline the potential benefits of subcutaneous OCREVUS for patients with both relapsing and progressive forms of MS,” shared Scott Newsome , DO, lead author, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Provention Bio and Sanofi US have signed a co-promotion agreement to launch the former’s lead investigational drug candidate, teplizumab for the delay in the onset of clinical type 1 diabetes (T1D). The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is presently reviewing teplizumab for the delay of clinical T1D in people who are at risk.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

AUGUST 18, 2023

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted for regulatory review the marketing authorisation application (MAA) for avacincaptad pegol (ACP) to treat geographic atrophy (GA). EMA’s CHMP will begin its review of the MAA under the centralised licensing procedure for all 27 member states of the EU.

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APRIL 6, 2023

The Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has accepted Everest Medicines’ new drug application (NDA) for Nefecon to treat adults with primary immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) who are at risk of disease progression. Nefecon represents the first non-oncology medicine to gain breakthrough therapy designation in China.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Tirzepatide The novel dual glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist tirzepatide, is licensed for adults with insufficiently controlled type 2 diabetes when metformin cannot be tolerated, Helen Knight, Director of medicines evaluation at NICE explained.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

A marketing authorisation application (MAA) has been submitted by The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for approval of talquetamab, a bispecific t-cell engager antibody for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM).

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APRIL 17, 2023

Health Canada has accepted Pfizer Canada’s new drug submission for a bivalent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for review. The company announced that Health Canada’s acceptance follows the acceptance by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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JANUARY 5, 2024

These results should lead to expediting the conduct of a placebo-controlled international trial to replicate these results,” Professor John Kane, Professor of Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine, The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine, Hempstead New York noted.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation to RP-A501, an adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy for Danon disease. “RP-A501 Ultimately, this leads to heart failure and can be fatal for male patients.

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MARCH 4, 2024

As a cornerstone of advanced therapeutics in modern medicine, biologics command significant attention in the search for effective treatments for human diseases. 1 However, the entry of biologics into the pharmaceutical market is not without unique challenges, particularly when compared to small molecule drugs. percent through 2027.

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APRIL 4, 2023

Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics have completed the rolling submission of biologics licence applications (BLAs) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel) to treat sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT).

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JUNE 29, 2023

Based on scientific knowledge and process understanding, manufacturers of drugs and drug substances have a broad awareness of potential impurities – including nitrosamine impurities – that could form during manufacturing or degradation. 1 Nitrosamines are not new or unknown impurities.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

Immunotherapy drugs like teclistamab can result in potentially fatal side effects, including CRS and immune cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS). The drug tocilizumab for example, has been used historically to treat CRS from immunotherapies. An overactive immune response [is] the hallmark of CRS,” Landgren added.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

While standard of care (chemotherapy in addition to radiation in certain cases) for the disease offers a cure rate of more than 80 percent, “the 20 percent who are not cured have a long road ahead,” stated Wilmot Cancer Institute Director and lead study investigator, Dr Jonathan Friedberg , MMSc, University of Rochester Medical Center, US.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

DECEMBER 1, 2023

During CPHI Barcelona, EPR Editor Caroline Peachey asked Anil Kane, Global Head of Technical & Scientific Affairs, Pharma Services, at Thermo Fisher Scientific about the dynamic landscape of pharmaceutical drug development. What are the trends affecting drug development today?

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