FDA Shuts The Door On Celgene’s Abraxane Petition

Petition Filed In 2015 Could Have Delayed Competition

ANDA and 505(b)(2) sponsors have been handed a boost after the FDA denied almost entirely a citizen petition filed by Bristol Myers Squibb’s Celgene which called for additional tests for rivals to its Abraxane oncology agent.

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The FDA mostly denied the 2015 petition • Source: Shutterstock

The US Food and Drug Administration has mostly denied a citizen petition filed by Celgene requesting the agency add new requirements for generic sponsors developing rivals to the originator’s Abraxane (protein-bound paclitaxel) for injectable suspension, as part of an attempt to delay competition to the complex treatment for forms of cancer.

More than six years ago, Celgene petitioned the FDA to refrain from receiving for substantive review or approving any abbreviated...

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