Less Than First: Below-Average Innovation In US FDA’s Big 2023 Novel Approval Haul

Innovation metrics like first-in-class and breakthrough therapy approvals declined as a share of novel agents in 2023, even as the US FDA’s drugs center posted one of its biggest novel approval totals ever.

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The US FDA approval class of did not get strong marks in some areas. • Source: Shutterstock

The US FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research posted its second-highest annual total novel approvals of the PDUFA era in 2023, but the class is actually below average on some important markers of innovation: first-in-class drug approvals and breakthrough therapy designations.

CDER approved 20 new molecular entities and novel biologics that were first in their class during 2023, the same number...

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