The US FDA bracketed the Thanksgiving holiday with two new molecular entity approvals (NMEs) in oncology – Pfizer Inc.’s Daurismo (glasdegib) on Nov. 21 and Loxo Oncology Inc. and Bayer AG’s Vitrakvi (larotrectinib) on Nov. 26 – bringing the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research’s (CDER's) novel agent count for 2018 to a record-tying 53 approvals.
CDER is likely to reach 54 approvals by the end of November, further solidifying 2018 as the best year ever...






