The latest drug development news and highlights from the Pink Sheet’s US FDA Performance Tracker
It was a slow week, but not exactly a quiet week. The US Food and Drug Administration approved Heron Therapeutics, Inc.’s Zynrelef, an extended-release dual-acting local anesthetic that could forestall the need for narcotic analgesia after some surgeries – an incremental step in the multi-front campaign against opioid abuse.
Amgen, Inc. and AstraZeneca PLC’s first-in-class tezepelumab was submitted for a broad population of severe asthma patients.
An abbreviated licensure pathway for biologics was created by the 2009 Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act. Biologics demonstrated to be biosimilar to or interchangeable with FDA-approved products can use the 351(k) biologics license application pathway. Biosimilars BLAs submitted under the 351(k) pathway have a 12 month user fee goal for FDA action. Updated weekly.
A real-world evidence study also does not meet the regulatory standard for an adequate and well-controlled clinical investigation, the agency said. The FDA should allow the accelerated approval drug to remain available like other treatments that failed their confirmatory trials, Intercept said.
Recent and upcoming US FDA advisory committee meetings and a summary of the topics covered.
New marketing authorization applications filed with the European Medicines Agency's human medicines committee (the CHMP) for review under the EU's centralized procedure. Updated monthly.
New marketing authorization applications filed with the European Medicines Agency's human medicines committee (the CHMP) for review under the EU's centralized procedure. Updated monthly.
A real-world evidence study also does not meet the regulatory standard for an adequate and well-controlled clinical investigation, the agency said. The FDA should allow the accelerated approval drug to remain available like other treatments that failed their confirmatory trials, Intercept said.
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